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"dr angela" Discussed on Science Friday
"So that may explain Any of those things lipid nanoparticle the interval and the dose might explain why the pfizer vaccine doesn't seem to hold up for as long or as durable as moderna. But we still of course need to do more research. Let's talk in the few moments we have left about news this week about a new variant called mu and now in forty eight states Should be we. Should we be concerned about that and other variants that we're hearing about. Yeah so there's been a lot of news about variants this weaker and has been more along the lines of scary. It's kind of news. Where oh my god. There's a new variant. It's also got a greek letter. Which is now the the. Who has recommended naming the variants. It's called new and that's just really because they've now gotten to 'em in the greek alphabet there's another cluster of variants called see one to That's a sub lineage. That was discovered in south africa This is a group of variants. That has a lot of mutations that have accumulated in spike protein. And there have been rumors going around that. It's you know it mutates faster or that. It's the most needed genyk virus ever. None of those things are really true. And that's not to say that these variants aren't something. We should be concerned about something we should watch. I think that's why mu classified now as a variant of interest by the who. It's not yet a variant of concern and the reason why none of these are variants of concern yet is that we don't actually know that we should be most concerned about them. What we are really going to have to see in the coming days and weeks is whether or not these variant start to out compete delta and that to me is really going to be the thing that we need to be most concerned about because we already know that delta's pretty it's more transmissible. It may be more relevant There is causing more breakthrough infections. It's spreading like wildfire in places where people are unvaccinated. If either you or one of these viruses shows that it has the potential to do that even better than delta. That's what we really should be worried about. So we should be vigilant. But we shouldn't freak out just because there's a new variant on the block a couple of new variants on the block. It really does remain to be seen whether they're going to be a big bad or not. Okay advice for not freaking out is a good place to end her discussion. We've run out of time. Thank you angela. It's always a pleasure. Ira thanks for having me your quite welcome dr angela. Rasmusen is a research scientist at veto. Interact the university of saskatchewan's vaccine research institute in saskatoon excess catcher on canada. We're gonna take a break and when we come back. The research on one potential climate change tipping..
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"dr angela" Discussed on Science Friday
"Science friday. I'm ira plato. Later in the hour a look at how global change is upsetting vital ocean currents in the atlantic and trip to the bakery for some sour dough. Bread kikori but i if you've been online at all in the past few weeks you've probably seen discussions about the drug ivermectin. It was originally developed as an anti parasitic treatment for livestock and in two thousand fifteen. The nobel prize went to scientists. Who found that. It helped control parasitic diseases in humans as well but now some groups have been promoting the drug as a treatment for cova nineteen even though the corona virus is a virus not a parasite joining me now to help unpack that and other news from your covy. Newsfeed is dr angela. Rasmussen research scientists at veto inter vac. The university of saskatchewan's vaccine research institute in saskatoon saskatchewan up there in our friends in the north in canada. Welcome back angela. Thanks for having me back ira okay. So what's the deal with this horse. Medication story ivermectin. In some ways is really the new hydroxy chloroquine. I'm not entirely sure how ivermectin came on the scene as possible treatment for covert nineteen but multiple clinical trials have been conducted to look at ivermectin for treating cova nineteen preventing covert nineteen and it. It doesn't appear to do either one of those things the fda as well as the one of the manufactures of ivermectin merck Have both released statement saying that. That ivermectin cannot be used for for treating cove nineteen and that people should not use it especially as a substitute for vaccination and you know for me like months ago when merck said. Don't take ivermectin for cove. Ed i mean that's not usually the kind of thing that a pharmaceutical company says about a product that they make. Please don't take our product you know. All of that along with the data is really strong. Indication that ivermectin doesn't do much In the way of treating cove nineteen in it certainly doesn't prevent it and it certainly is not a good alternative vaccination as some people who are promoting ivermectin for this purpose have said while ivermectin is on the. who's list of essential medicines. It's a crucial medicine in. You mentioned that. The discovers of ivermectin won the nobel prize because it is used for treating some some really horrific parasitic diseases. One of those African riverblindness is a disease caused by worms that can ultimately results as the name implies in loss vision most of the listeners. Probably our most familiar with ivermectin as an ingredient in heart guard or any of the other types of de worming medications that they give pets. It's very effective for treating parasitic worm. Infections it is not effective however for treating cove nineteen. And this is what really concerns me are people who are promoting ivermectin as a valid alternative vaccination for preventing cova nineteen and. This is just simply not the case if you're taking ivermectin every day not only If you are taking off label can use suffer the consequences of taking too much ivermectin. Because if you're buying ivermectin in a dose that's meant for horses or cows or large animals that have considerably more body mass than we do You could overdose on it but also you are going to continue to be vulnerable to kogo nineteen and if you think that that ivermectin is providing the same protection that a vaccine would You're you're going to potentially put yourself at a greater risk. Let's move on to something. That has a bit more evidence behind it and that is boosters. There's been a lot of talk about boosters. What israel is doing what other countries are doing. Will there be a third shot. Who will get it and win. Yeah this is really kind of one of the hot topics of the hour and really a lot of this is based on evidence that i was pretty skeptical of it. I but i'm i'm starting to be more and more persuaded. We're starting to see more evidence at really the population level that over time the marin vaccines particularly the pfizer vaccine appears to be decreasing ineffectiveness preventing symptomatic covert nineteen. Now this. this has been a really confusing topic. I think because we are also hearing all the time about breakthrough infections and how they're more common with the delta variant and that's not necessarily due to this decrease in effectiveness And that's not always talking about cases as cases of symptomatic cova nineteen sometimes it conflates Symptomatic disease with pcr positively but overall. This is really important. A decreasing effectiveness is something to be on the lookout. For because in the clinical trials to evaluate these vaccines they were expedited because this was an emergency situation So we weren't able to look at durability we don't know how long these vaccines are going to have a long-term protective effect and it is entirely possible that third dose would always be needed because oftentimes one of the reasons. Why vaccine clinical trials. Take such a long time as they try multiple configurations of the dosing regimen to determine the optimal one for establishing durability we have many vaccines that are three dose regimens usually with the third dose being given after a longer time interval from the second dose which is really what's being discussed now. The reason why this is important is not just to prevent a symptomatic breakthrough cases. And i think this is one of the things that has really confused people because there has been some talk of while. You're moving the goalposts. I it was just to to prevent cova and now it's to prevent all these infections. And why do i care if i get infected. If i'm just positive on a test in. I don't have symptomatic cova but for people who are already high risk of developing severe cove in nineteen an increase in the number of symptomatic cove nineteen cases in healthy low risk vaccinated. People probably means that there could be an increase in the number of severe cova nineteen cases in high risk people who are more likely to end up in the hospital. More likely to die from having cove ed so it does make sense to to say well. We do have a surplus in many parts of the country. Vaccines right now. We do have increasing evidence that a third vaccine or even a mix and match vaccine regimen with the third dose is safe if you can increase vaccine effectiveness to take it from fifty to seventy percent. Backup to ninety percent in terms of preventing. That's something that we would want to have and then finally As i mentioned before many vaccine regimens are three dose regimens and the reason for that third dose in the data to support this to the kovic. Vaccines is that if you haven't increased interval between your second and third doses your immune system basically says you know what this is something that i might continue to see this pathogen. So i'm really going to exert of the resources needed to to really make that long term memory protective immune responses and. I hope that that's what we will get from the third vaccine now. Of course we don't know for these vaccines because we weren't able to look durability but knowing what we know from other vaccines and other types of vaccines This usually applies that that sometimes booster doses are needed but they're not needed at frequent intervals. And they do results in immunity that lasts for years in most cases. Can we learn anything from the israeli experience on this. they've already been using third doses will absolutely and unfortunately what we can only learn is about the pfizer vaccine in israel on because that's predominantly the one that they're using but israel has really been a wealth of information because they have had such a successful vaccine campaign and they've been collecting so much data on it. So i think that probably we will be able to learn a lot more at least about what the benefit is to a third dose from the for the pfizer vaccine at the population level. I hear you saying or implying that the modern dern vaccine may be longer lasting than the pfizer vaccine well. A study came out this week in the journal of the american medical association. That suggested just that now. There aren't very many studies that are directly comparing these two vaccines. And i think people have assumed that they're basically the same vaccine as far as what the marin a is in codeine But there are a couple of differences. The pfizer vaccine is given in a lower dose thirty micrograms compared to the hundred microgram dose of moderna And they have a different interval Three weeks for five or four weeks for moderna and they also use a different lipid nanoparticle to deliver the vaccine That ends up going into your cells where the spike protein gets made. All three of those things could make a difference potentially Study in jama showed It showed that that the pfizer vaccine was reduced in terms of its effectiveness in people who received that compared to moderna and also that they had lower levels of neutralizing antibodies..
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"dr angela" Discussed on Pod Save America
"New york. Governor andrew cuomo but first check out hysteria where earn ryan melissa masterminded go have been killing it with interviews lately. They've talked to amanda. Knox yes that. Amanda knox senator tammy baldwin and akilah green of black lady sketch show new episodes of hysteria. Drop every thursday. And don't miss. America dissected this week were dr abdul l. Ed talks all things delta with one of my favorite kovic twitter followers urologist. dr angela. rasmussen. Check it out all right. Get to the news. The normally useless senate took a break from fucking up democracy this week to pass a trillion dollar infrastructure bill and three point five trillion dollar budget resolution. That includes the rest of joe. Biden's economic agenda climate healthcare education and more infrastructure. Got sixty nine votes nice including mitch mcconnell and eighteen other republicans. The budget resolution barely squeaked by with fifty votes all democrats but now comes the hard part. The senate has until september fifteenth to turn the budget resolution into a final piece of legislation. Which will require fifty democrats to agree on every detail dollar amount but already joe manchin cures cinema cinema have said they have serious concerns about the three point five trillion dollar price tag and to make things even more complicated. Nancy pelosi said that until senate democrats agree on a final budget. She won't hold a vote on the infrastructure bill in the house so joe biden isn't signing shit until every democrat from afc. To joe manchin is happy or at least happy enough that they don't blow up everything while everyone gets their shit together. The republicans are blanketing swing districts with few million dollars of negative ads and threatening to take the global economy by refusing to raise the debt limit. Dan have i missed anything here. And if you got it that's all routes of you got a a very sharp attack on the senate as an institution in there. I mean that's look it's You know it's like at the softball over the play. And do you ever go back to dc you. Show up at the monocle. Your get booed by bunch of senate. Aides can't go wrong with shooting on the senate all right. We talked about this on monday. But i do an quickly hear your thoughts on why mitch mcconnell gave Joe biden the bipartisan win. That he's been craving very unlike mitch. Mcconnell i imagine i imagine you would have said at the beginning of this process. There's no way mitch. Mcconnell will do that. I mean if people check the tapes. I'm sure i did. It's out there on the internet and we can't get rid of it nailed it again positive. America nailed it again. You know every once in a while a holly has time on her phone and she gets. It's been happening this year. Five year reminders of tweets. Which is skit services in two thousand sixteen tweets that i scrub from the internet. I people that a lot of you have asked me this question. Like what is the grand strategy. Or what does mitch mcconnell trying to some sort of brilliant plan to undermine democratic arguments for getting rid of the filibuster by sort of giving showing that bipartisan ship is not dead. I think more likely mitch. Mcconnell was the caboose. Not the engine on the train a bunch of members who wanted to do something on infrastructure. There's been sort of pent-up desire to do something on it. It's relatively non-controversial. It's a chance to do something that doesn't really fire up the base donald trump could barely muster energy behind opposing it and so he just got on board with it at the end. I think the original thought was it was unlikely to succeed and would blow off at some point and if he could blame biden and he would just eat up clock. This is main goal is make things as slowest possible. Binding confirm few judges. As possible passes few houses possible make the democratic base get disenchanted but they were able to pull it together and it got done and the really was. I don't think there's a lot he could do about it. So we just ended up voting gas and the and i will say there were the thing that is always instrument instructor which is why people have had sort of some optimism about it over. The course of many many years about it is that there are a lot of traditional republican interest groups like the chamber of commerce who are very strongly behind if searcher corporations really behind it so it's sort of it had sort of to it that a lot to get done it also it didn't end up raising taxes It wasn't a lot of social spending. Wasn't a ton of new spending at all when you really dig into the numbers so like you said relatively non-controversial with their base their basis becoming less concerned about sort of Economic policy anyway at this point. What really motivates them as the culture wars. And that's where the republicans want to focus. So i almost think it's like taking an economic issue off the table so they can go back to focusing on culture wars and also tell voters oh by the way. We're not complete obstructionists Even though we obstructed the rest of joe biden's economic agenda. We did agree with him on this one it does. I don't think this was part of some giant plan but it probably strengthens their argument. A little bit against the three point five trillion dollars in the budget bill which i just violated one of the rules that i have about not mentioning the total every time you talk about it but it just it makes it easier. Say we'd like we're finding do things with a at this thing. We did but this is way too far better. Other than the democrats saying you obstruct everything you oppose everything. That's a so there is. I understand why there's some political moderate modicum of political upside to this Let's talk about what's next to the senate. Manchin voted for the budget resolution but then released a statement saying that he has quote serious concerns about the budgets price tag adding that quote rising inflation rates are quote not indications of an economy that requires trillions in additional spending. Of course every.
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"dr angela" Discussed on Science Friday
"Talking about the nova vacs. It's it's a much more traditional vaccine. Than the m are rene ones right. I mean it's akin the whooping cough vaccine. Could that make more people feel safe. Taking it knowing that i think it really could and The the novak's clinical trial results were incredibly encouraging It does seem to be a very effective vaccine as well. It's what's called a protein sub unit vaccine so it is actually making the spike protein. Before it goes into your arm was knew about this. Is it actually uses a different protein expression system. that's derived from moth cells. They can make quite a bit of protein. They've coupled with a compound that stimulates your immune system it makes vaccine response is more effective. It really does appear that it works very very well. I think for a lot of people who are unsure about the a or the adenovirus vector technology might feel more comfortable. Getting a protein sub unit vaccine. Because as you pointed out these have been used for the cellular protests vaccine. They've been used for the hepatitis b. Vaccine most people are familiar enough with those vaccine technologies that they might feel comfortable taking that protein sub unit vaccines are very temperature stable And they're easy to transport. So i think the novak's vaccine is also going to be really huge For vaccinating other parts of the world where it may be more difficult to bring the marnie vaccines in particular and novak has pledged more than a billion doses to the global kovacs program. Yes and that's going to be absolutely crucial because With the clotting issues that have come up. These are still very rare. Side effects with johnson and johnson and with astrazeneca A lot of people in other countries have rightly wondered. If they're getting the short end of the stick. Why are we getting these great marnie. Vaccines that wealthier. Countries are getting and I think that having a very effective vaccine that is not on an adenovirus vector platform will do a lot for global vaccine confidence as well as just for getting the vaccine out to the rest of the globe and it's hard to see this from the. Us where now we have so many vaccines vaccines are expiring on. Freezer shells that you. There are parts of the world where people have not been vaccinated against kovin. They have not gotten access to those vaccines including healthcare workers including high risk people. So i think that it's absolutely crucial to get this vaccine out as soon as possible because a pandemic is by definition a global public health crisis. We need to make sure that we're vaccinating the world. This is science friday from wnyc studios at one weight into a discussion. That's been happening about where the virus came from. We mentioned a few weeks ago. That president biden had ordered an investigation into the origins of cova nineteen. And now we're getting some pushback against the idea that this was created intentionally in the laboratory someplace in china pushback coming from some very well known scientists. Yeah so this has been A really contentious topic and it's really unfortunate a lot of times. What people do need to understand is that most of the time it takes a long time to figure out where a virus came from in many cases even though we know where from viruses come from. We still haven't actually proved it. Any bowl is a great example of that. We know that it's it's transmitted by bats We know that it's carried by bats. There it's national reservoir but don't even really know what species. We've never isolated lives bulla virus from bat. We've only just started basically isolating sequences of ebola viruses from bats. He bala came onto our radar. Nineteen seventy six. So it's been around for almost fifty years and we still don't. We still don't have a solid answer definitive answer on that on that viruses origin But nobody thinks it came from a lab obviously So the the situation with covert or with stars corona virus to is that the first outbreak that was observed was in wuhan china Where there is a major virology institute where they were working on back corona viruses. Then we know that these are beco- viruses that's sub genus. That stars current virus to is in the sars-like krona viruses Is is normally in the wild in bats We also know that it can infect a number of different intermediate species and sars coronavirus to is also quite promiscuous in terms of the number of other species that it can that can infect so. There's a lot of different possibilities including the possibility that it came out of a accident. I think everybody does agree. That that analyzing the genome of this virus suggests that it wasn't a biological weapon in my opinion. I think that a natural origin remains the most likely. But it's true that we have not ruled out the possibility that it could have come from a lab. But i think one point that i'd like to make your ira is that people have been talking about this lately. As though these are equivalent possibilities nature or the lab in my opinion as a virologist Looking at the genome looking at the number of other species that this virus can infect the the weight of the evidence points toward in animal natural origin. And one of the reasons for that that we can look at and see in real time. Is that this. Virus was not properly adopted to human hosts that suggests that it was a very very recent spillover events. That still doesn't exclude again. A lab exposure but that does suggest this virus was in no way pre adopted Or passage to make it more effective as a human pathogen And the the evidence for that is right in front of our eyes. it's the variance. The reason why variants are emerging is because this virus has spread through the human population to the point that now it is beginning to evolve. Adapt to us if this virus was pre adopted. Or if it was already being passage through human cells or being developed into a human pathogen for research purposes not not even necessarily for malicious purposes We would see those those variants in the first viruses that were circulating. but we have not So i think that it is important to investigate all potential origin hypotheses and as i said none of them have been ruled out But in my opinion again. I think that the the natural origin hypothesis is by far the most likely well. I think that's a good place to stop. You have certainly filled us in on a lot of questions. We've all been having in our own minds. Thank you angela. It's always a pleasure. Ira dr angela. Rasmussen a research scientist at veto into vac. That's the university of saskatchewan's vaccine research institute in saskatoon and we have to take a break. And when we come back exploring edgar. Allan poe's lifelong fascination with science and from the alfred p sloan foundation working to enhance public understanding of science technology and economics in the modern world. This is science. Friday my roof. Plato leave my loneliness unbroken. Quit the bust above my door. Take by.
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"dr angela" Discussed on Pond's Feed
"A lot of things that are really kind of night. It almost seems like it's just a mass of to say that like america's better and is race free because that's where they use. Martin luther king junior day is hey remember the time of their racism and like will that still now so i mean that that's the one i done carried for the july and then the Thanksgiving with all these federal holidays where they're trying to teach kids. This is all in the past and going back to that. There is something interesting. I forgot his name but he brought it was on. Tiktok was brought up that the photo Martin luther king. Junior's i had a dream speech was in black and white but the real photo was in color. So that's a showing just a visual. How much like they're trying to manipulate. Future generations yeah so the whole purpose is to brainwash people to think that was centuries ago. Here's the thing. Even if it was centuries ago humans are tens of thousands of years of inequities injustices wars religious missionaries stealing raping murdering tens of thousands of years of knowledge is stolen so there's no expiration day or outrage just like in looking at the law and criminal cases there's no expiration date for murder right. You can't say you got caught but you murdered that person forty years ago. Therefore you're free. That doesn't happen based on the law because the russian date right so the same thing should apply when we're talking about undeserved menard is individual level also as the aggregate. So reverend dr martin luther king junior he was token is d- and misrepresented intentionally in particular by white moderates as they call back then which would now be considered why democrats white liberals and perhaps even white progressives back then the nineteen sixties both mathematics and dr. angela davis and many other activists scholars were black. We're very outspoken. They explained that this is not about white savior. This is not about white rescuer. This is not about pretending. That whites should not be held accountable. This is not about uniting cost race in colorblind way and this is what black sociologists of which i am as well call color blind racism so anyone listening to your wonderful show can research black sociologists such as dr rodman the silva. That's e. d. u. a. r. d. o. Aena nia b. o. L. l. a. hyphen silva s. I l v a and dr baena silver wrote the book racism without racists and the previous edition. You can actually find the entire pdf online if you do an internet search and we call it colorblind. Racism in sociology. Because it is centuries of white people saying we're all humans in that small hundred percent based on hiding disparities inequities and using particularly indigenous people in african black people of lying in hating white people. So dr martin. Luther king junior experienced that as well remember why people killed reverend dr martin luther king junior so whenever white people tell us you got to be polite like martin luther king junior was always say well. I know he was very stern. He was very demanding. There's some quotes were talks about. The white moderate wanting more peace than equity in other words black people in particular can be miserable as long as you smell so white people murdered reverend dr martin luther king junior while also saying that reverend dr martin luther king junior peace and when why people say reverend dr martin luther king jr was peaceful. They use that in an attempt. To contrast the different black can't the party and black coalitions and malcolm x. Also want wanna highlight fellow black sociologists in fellow black criminologist dr wbz boies. Who's one of the cofounders along with ivy wills of in aa c. P..
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"dr angela" Discussed on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"Meeting President Biden is just hours away from his first in person sit down with Russian President Vladimir Putin. CBS is Stephen Portnoy reports. The president's agenda for this summit is long. Aides say he intends to raise a range of issues. Related to Russia's bad actions under Putin. Well, he's a master of malign activities. But Rose Gottemoeller, a lecturer at Stanford University and a former top NATO official says there's also an opportunity here for the two men to see eye to eye. We have mutual positive impressed that we need to work on, such as making sure that Afghanistan does not collapse and making sure that nuclear weapons continue to be in a process of limitation and control. 600,000 covid deaths. We learn local public health doctors are monitoring of more contagious strain of the virus and radios. Heather Bash has more on what you should know about the Delta variant. The delta strain has doctors concerned because it spreads more quickly than other covid 19 variants. It also, unfortunately, is pretty good at infecting people who have only been partially vaccinated. So, Dr Angela Rasmussen tells Cairo radios G and Ursula It's important to make sure you get both your covid. Shots. What if you took the one Does Johnson and Johnson vaccine, Rasmussen says it is possible you'd be more susceptible to breakthrough cases testing positive even after you've been vaccinated, but you'd still be protected from becoming severely ill. At least 170 cases of the Delta variants are confirmed in Washington. It was vaccine lottery Round two Today winner should be contacted tomorrow, including the $250,000 jackpot winner. The state says more than 100. Prices from last week's drawings went unclaimed. Those will be added to the final drawing next month. 5 33 real time traffic Now here's Tracy Taylor. Erin. I'm finding some slowing on.
The Past Lives Podcast
"dr angela" Discussed on The Past Lives Podcast
"Do you remember what happened to his last night. Because we were told to go to the window we saw the silver disc with flashing lights around it and then we saw this bull of blue light that came through the window and then what happened so her boyfriend was very very scared about this. He did not want to talk about it at all and she said actually that was the very last day that she ever saw him ever again. She said he never returned any phone calls or anything. Nothing never responded and that morning in the shower. She said she found a lump in the full on her right fool all and she said what was very strange about this was i had not had it before. I've not had this lump. It wasn't there the night before or the night before that so she said it was very strange because i could move it around my arm but it never caused any pain so she actually left this in her arm for twenty years and she says i saw dr roger layer on a tv show talking about ufo's and alien implants. And i she says. I just thought to myself I just wonder if this is what i have. So she chased track dr raja down in california and they met they had a meeting and he asked her what happened and she had some x. Rays done and he said to her. Well i can tell you this. It's not assist because if it was assist you wouldn't be able to move it around your arm like that. It would be attached attached tissue not attached a tissue. So what's showing up on. Radar is not an x ray. Is that this thing is. It's not metallic it's biological. Do you want to leave it in or do you want to have it removed. And she said. Oh no i definitely want to have it removed. So the day the surgery came and they went in with the forceps it was dot roger lee and another surgeon and they lifted the skin real high content almost and they went him with forceps. Try and get this thing and shot up her arm like it had its own intelligence behind it and so they had to cut a little further in a skin. Lifted up higher to go deeper and grab this thing and they they did grab it. And it was like describe it is like a clown it was in two hogs and it was like a creamy yellowish in color with a black strip that ran down the middle of it and she said the very same the same thing that a lot of people say when they have these objects removed in that she found a whole new sense of freedom when this thing was removed so as doctorate dr roger leah does with all of his implants. He puts them in a little test. You with the person's body fluid in then he refrigerator overnight at twenty four hours or so to see if there's any change and there was no change with this particular object. And then of course they go off for evaluation around different laboratories in and out of the country because roger lia had a five oh one nonprofit organization specifically for this kind of thing and when someone has a suspected implant alien implant in their body they do have to sign paperwork to release this implant and that once it's removed it is then the possession of dr angela. It's it belongs to him at that point so and they are all quite willing to do that so it was a remarkable case that one and had i not have been there simon and watch that with my own eyes. I do understand how these suspected alien implants can be hard to Fine real.
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"dr angela" Discussed on CXMH
"But i feel like you know. There is a lot of celebrating with wrapping up the school year. In the transitions ahead but yes there is definitely a you know we made it with one. Big exhale Hopefully hopefully i know that what everybody gets to experience. I want to be sensitive to that but yeah but yet the helping folks have an opportunity to act- sale in the weeks ahead Something i'm keeping my fingers crossed for. So yeah yeah yeah well speaking of kind of holding this tension of like some things right and also grieving the loss of things and moving on from things. That's obviously not like a an exact parallel a lot of those same kind of like. How do we find these things. Intention apply to our conversation today With with reverend angela. Gorell so i don't know you tell us a little bit about that and at least you know maybe some of your your reflections on it. Yeah sure will. We had as as you mentioned. We had our our friend. Reverend dr angela. Durrell come back on. She is a professor at baylor university and she said True it illogical seminary she his. She came on a little while back to talk about her other book always on but for this book that she's talking about it's much more personal. It is much more of her own story. And the tragedies that she has had to navigate personally the difficult and interesting nuance of this was that she was navigating. A lotta these personal tragedies at the same time as she was charged basically to studied joy and sitting in that tension of do you study joy. And how do you teach this class on. Life in general and that navigate the layers of grief that she had navigate is just. It's so powerful. yeah. I mean i definitely. I'll go a lot of that especially the way that she like. You said Doesn't kind of set aside the joy or the grief that coexisting and she unpacked that really beautifully and so it's not kind of dislike dichotomy..
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"N Y C coming up next. Our weekly asked the mayor segment. Right now. It's time for ask a virologist with Dr Angela Rasmussen at 646435 70 to 80. Maybe I want to ask you a question about vaccines. Maybe you want to ask a question about variants. Maybe you want to ask about double masking and the quality of different kinds of masks. More in the news these days, Whatever 646435 70 to 86 46435 70 to 80 and as your calls are coming in and before we bring on Dr Rasmussen. Some of the latest covert vaccine news this morning includes that an FDA advisory committee is now officially scheduled to meet on February 26th toe look at approving the use of the one shot vaccine from Johnson and Johnson. Visor and modern is vaccines are about 95% effective when it comes to preventing even moderate cases of covert they have found in trials. Johnson and Johnson. Well, it appears to be 65% effective, but that could be a misleading stat. Because it still appears to be extremely effective against severe cases. And there's breaking news just a little while ago about the AstraZeneca vaccine, which has now been found to be protective Against the Corona virus variant first seen in the UK so that if true is really good news, and with all of that is prelude. Joining me now is Dr Angela Rasmussen, virologist and affiliate at the Georgetown Center for Global Health, Science and Security Doctor s Mus. And Thanks for doing this Welcome back to W N. Y C. Thanks so much for having me back. Brian, can we start with that brand new AstraZeneca Vaccine news yet? Have you even seen that yet? And how do they tease out whether any of these vaccines or effective against the new variants? So this is a really complicated question. And part of it is that if you want to look at vaccine efficacy against the new variants, you really have to make sure you're conducting your clinical trial in a place where those variants air circulating and right now, even though the variants have been detected many places all over the world, including throughout the U. S. There are not many countries where the those vaccines are actually circulating widely in the populations. One of those countries is South Africa, so trials that have been conducted in South Africa. Are able to actually look at this variance. And that's where we're seeing some of this clinical trial data about vaccine efficacy, specifically with its ability to protect against the B 1351 variant that's circulating there. And how about the Johnson and Johnson vaccine? I'm getting the sense from some science people that it's kind of been under reported in terms of its effectiveness that when we say a top line 65% effective And we've all heard 94% effective for the Madonna and the Fizer. It really kind of underplays How good the Johnson and Johnson one shot vaccine is. Is that your take? That is my take. I think that this has been really unfortunate, and it really shows how difficult vaccine trials are to report on one of the things you are correct in saying that it was less efficacious. Protecting against all symptomatic Cove in 19, But it was extremely efficacious, preventing severe cove in 19. And that was actually an end point that wasn't studied and the modern are Fizer trials. Johnson and Johnson was completely effective. There were no deaths as a result of people who were who were vaccinated, meaning that this vaccine is also extremely efficacious, and it has one Other major advantage over the Fizer and Madonna vaccines, and that is that it's only one shot, and it also doesn't require long term ultra cold storage The way that the M R any vaccines Diogo So I think that we should be celebrating the Johnson and Johnson news because it means that we have one more fantastic vaccine to add to our toolbox. This is also going to make it a lot easier to vaccinate people who are either in areas that make it difficult for vaccinators to get to Both in the U. S and abroad on areas that don't necessarily have the same type of cold chain infrastructure that larger cities, for example, will have. So I think all the Johnson and Johnson news is fantastic and that severe disease Prevention. I mean, that's really the ball game, isn't it because with any other Cold or flu that's going around. If you get it, you get it. But the problem with Cove it is that so many people wind up, hospitalized or wind up dying, so vaccine any vaccine that prevents that. I mean, that's that's the ball game, right? That's absolutely correct. So the thing with Cove it is that it's really a numbers game. SARS coronavirus, too, is very transmissible. We've seen it really just tear through populations, especially when people aren't implementing precautions to reduce transmission and exposure. And out of those people who get it. Many will not have severe disease. But enough people get it enough people have to go to the hospital than the hospital start to become overwhelmed. If we are at hospital capacity are already fragile health care system is really going to be pushed to R to its breaking point, so making sure that we can protect people from a more severe outcome where they have to be hospitalized and where they might even die from having cove. It. Is really great Bull for individual people receiving the vaccine, as well as for public health at large. I think that vaccines that can reduce house and deaths are are really as you said the ball game. All right, Listeners. A task of virologist virologist is Dr Angela MMA, Angela Rasmussen. From Georgetown University and Kyle in the story of your Aunt W, N Y C Hi, Kyle. A buy. And first time caller..
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"Home for breaking news with our team of reporters around the country and the world. We give you the coverage you can trust now from the Cairo Radio New Center at my Northwest com hopes were dampened for some of their sixties who were hoping to get vaccinated in South King County next week. To net new vaccination clinics that are opening an Auburn and Kent on Monday. The age restrictions jumped from 65 to 75 years of age, Mickey, hardly a 67 and hasn't an auto immune disease that makes her protector. Particularly susceptible to the virus. She had been hoping to get the shot on Monday. I totally understand the shortage clinics opening in the middle of the night because they have extra vaccines. It's horribly frustrating. Health officials say they have to limit the doses to those who are at the greatest risk of dying of covert 19. And that's people. 75 or older. King County plans to give out 500 doses per day, six days a week. Once the supply increases, officials say they will change the requirements. Bass master getting new scrutiny with the more contagious strains of covert 19. Now in our country, a mask made in China, called the K and 95 is a good option. Unless you get a counterfeit one, though they're the ones that you would potentially be purchasing from the Internet from Katie suppliers that you may not have ever heard of. Dr Angela Rasmussen tells the Universal show that you should only by K and 90 five's that have been packaged for sale in the U. S. And come from Marie, Tell you trust either online or in person. And Seattle's Department of Transportation is making.
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"Information. It's hard to keep track of it. We saw Denmark kill millions of minx after discovering they had Cove. It What other links to animals do we know of with covert could be dogs and cats are things that we just don't know about or suspect. So that's that's a very good question and one that I think about a lot because it has long term implications for controlling SARS coronavirus, too, So initially, this was probably not widespread throughout a number of different animal species. We've since learned it's both experimentally and in terms of animals being infected in the real world that there are a number of different issues that are susceptible to infection, so cats, minks and ferrets we know experimentally that hamsters are also susceptible. They're used up often as a model of pathogenesis, or the way that the virus causes disease. Mice can be susceptible to some of these variants, including the variant discovered in the UK and in South Africa and so on and so forth, so we know that there are a number of different animal species that could be infected with it. The real question. Long term for me is Will the virus actually still back into any of these species in the wild and start circulating there? That's when things start becoming really unpredictable and you run the risk of having the virus be established in a new wildlife reservoir. Some flu viruses are carried by Birds. Wild birds, Are they not? Is there a possibility This could happen to? Yes, so probably not with birds. To my knowledge. There aren't any birds that have been discovered to be susceptible to stars current virus to in influenza, the natural host of influence that is migratory waterfowl, and that's one of the reasons why flu mutates so much because it's infecting these wild birds that are moving from place to place and then it can also infect some livestock species, including domestic Chickens and ducks as well as pigs on DSA. Oh, that that leads to a huge pool of different hosts across different species that can lead to the emergence of a bunch of different new influenza viruses and strains. With SARS coronavirus to. Fortunately, there's not a bunch of different star's Corona virus to circulating out there, at least that we know of. There's no other subtypes of this virus as there is with influenza, but it is certainly a concern that some type of animal that does have a larger geographic range would be able to support this, and that could potentially introduce it then to other species, including humans. So this is all a big question mark right now, But it's something we do need to think about over the long term, because obviously it has implications for controlling this virus if the virus is able to continue involving in other species, even after we, uh mostly control spread within the human population, so just to be sure, and and to talk about it with our with our listeners. There's no evidence so far that we should be worried about our house pets. No, not really. In fact, if anything, we should be worried about infecting our house pets because cats can get get somewhat sick. Dogs are susceptible to it, but they don't actually get very sick. And there's certainly been no indication that there's any dog to human transmission occurring either, But so far to my knowledge, there's no Reported zoonotic infections of stars current virus to from domestic animals or house cats to people. Okay, we're going to take a short break to digest a whole bunch of stuff that we heard. When we come back, we'll continue to fact. Check your feet with neurologist, Dr Angela Rasmussen. Stay with us. As I say. We'll be right back after this short break..
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"Of course, that vaccine is not yet approved in the U. S. However, the UK is also recommended that for the Fizer vaccine on Bear is no data about the effect that Delaine a second dose might have so Again. This really falls into the category of something that we can think about. We can discuss and if we do decide to move to this, we should actually test it. Before we start doing this. It's scale because we really don't know what the results would be from that. Yes. So we're basically conducting a real life experiment. That's exactly right. And my my other problem with this strategy is that I get that we are in a very dire, very urgent situation right now, with the numbers of cases that we have But at the same time we are really in a situation where the problem right now is vaccine supplies, so we don't necessarily need to do that again. We need to work out the problems with distributing the vaccines that we already have before we try to figure out how we can protect more people by stretching the supplies that are limited. Aren't there other one dose vaccines in the pipeline? I'm thinking of like Johnson and Johnson. That's right. So Johnson and Johnson is a different type of vaccine from the Fizer and Madonna vaccines. Those RMR any vaccines that essentially give yourselves instructions on how to make the spike protein. Star's Corona virus to that your immune system will then respond to the Johnson and Johnson vaccine actually uses a different virus called an adenovirus that will replicate to a certain degree and produce that protein from stars current virus to the spike protein. It's thought that sometimes vaccines that involve actually some level of virus replication can induce alone in one dose, those longer term immune responses just because they're they're more stimulatory to your immune system. Of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine is in phase three trials that will probably read out this month or at least in early February, And I believe that they're evaluating both of to dose and a single shot regimen. So if that single shot regimen shows efficacy levels anywhere near the Fizer and Madeira, no vaccines, I think that might end this argument for good because well suddenly have a huge supply of an alternative vaccine. It's actually also easier to distribute than the MRT vaccines because it doesn't require the same sort of cold storage that those vaccines Geo and JJ has the capacity to make a lot of vaccine, don't they? They do and the viral vectored adenovirus system that they're using. They've actually already developed as an experimental vaccine for HIV. So they already have the manufacturing capacity for that they've. They've further built that out as they were evaluating these vaccines. I think that could be a real game changer, assuming that it does show the same level of efficacy that the fighter and maternal vaccines did. There was some talk that when the Biden administration took over that it might sort of nationalized the vaccine production effort the way we did in World War two. We told the auto companies to make tanks instead of cars. Could. Could you see that happening? I think so. I think that you know, there's been a lot of talk about using the Defense production Act for both vaccines, as well as for components of the vaccine supply chains, so things like sterile saline, sterile liquids that are used to formulate the vaccines, glass vials and rubber stoppers and syringes. All that kind of thing that people don't think a lot about, but that are obviously really necessary for Not only creating vaccines but means to actually administer them to people. We've also heard a lot of discussion about using the Defense Production Act to make PPE for health care workers. And potentially also for the American people, so to provide people with more means to protect themselves, And I think all of those things would be a great use of the defense production act. Ah, lot of the times. I don't like comparing Public health measures to wartime measures. But in this case, I think that we really should see a national effort to do those things. And I think that would be a great way of doing it. Help me understand something about the Whole business about the Corona virus mutating when we talk about it mutating. Are we talking about an entirely different strain that we need to develop a new vaccine for or what? So that's a great question. And this is one thing I think that gets very confusing is that people often use the word strain quite a bit. But the words strain actually is not Tremendously specific in terms of virologists, and people will use it to mean ah variant that's genetically distinct. Some people will use it to mean variant that's immunologically distinct, and some people sort of use it to describe different viruses that emerged in different places. For example, like if you looked at the different rebel of viruses that have caused outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the 2018 Ebola's virus would be different strain from the 2016. Able, a virus that emerged there, so the term strain isn't very precise, and people use it a lot of times very differently. The variance that have been described so far in the United Kingdom and in South Africa, you know it's debatable whether you want to call them a strain. They're genetically difference. And they key thing there is that they have a number of different point mutations and some deletions throughout the genome. Well, we don't really know is what those different mutations do. Now it's normal for RNA viruses like Corona viruses to acquire mutations every time they replicate. So it's not surprising that we're seeing a lot of different variants emerging because the coronavirus unfortunately has had many opportunities to replicate since its spread so broadly through the population, What's alarming about these two variances that they seem to be more transmissible? Fortunately, they don't seem to be more pathogenic. They don't seem to make disease worse, but they do seem to be much easier to transmit to people, which is a problem for health care system Right now, we don't know actually if they will have any effect on immunity produced by the vaccines, but they could So far, it's looking more like the variant that was identified. First in South Africa is more likely to have an impact on immunity. But those experiments are in progress, and we don't actually know that right now. Myra Plato. This is science Friday from W. N. Y C studios. In case you're just joining us. We're talking with Dr Angela Rasmussen fact checking your feed all kinds of new information. It's hard to keep track of it. We saw Denmark kill millions of minx after discovering they had Cove. It What other links to animals.
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"U urology specialists that urology practice that we started in 2000 and seven It has been a minute and in a U. Stands for North Austin urology and Dr Mystery is his real name. It is not a fake name. It's m I s t r y. When you go to Google it it is not a mix up either, And I want to tell you about a funny mix up. Uh, this in recent memory, a drug company accidentally combined or switched sildenafil, which is the generic Viagra with tragedy on sleeping pill. Oh, that's a better recall it really they sure that's a real story is the real story. Oh, and so you had a bunch of horny, sleepy man. They were horny and sleeping with the bed, Right? Oh, man. Good looking wives. All right. You think the wife beating the wife switched the bill? Yeah. You're giving those wise men right? It is. Sorry, Michael. Sorry, Michael. You're going to bed sleepy time. What can I tell you uninterested side effect of trans ido, which you know the people made fun of the story. For that reason, one of the side effects of president Is in a certain subject of people. It can cause private business. We're in the middle of the night. These guys will wake up with an erection that will not go down. Oh, so in some ways, it's almost like a super Viagra for like 100 people, But, you know, but not enjoyable. If you have that one, you meet me in the emergency room and I got a sick needles and things And you have the sleepy boner Sleepy boner, and then you end up in the air. That's right with a needle stuck in your Penis. So I will tell you that I will tell you a story of a sleepy border at some point, Okay? Good. Good idea. My days of the Via. How do people get us hold of us and how they make an appointment. Tell us about our office. You can call us with your sleepy phoner stories at 512238076 to our email addresses. Armaments health at gmail dot com. We can ask any embarrassing or not embarrassing questions you want and we will answer them anonymously. And if you mention a T shirt, I will send it to you. Our websites. Armaments health dot com and we're all over the place Round Rock, North Austin, South Austin and Dripping Springs and our podcasts are award winning. They are incredible. And they're free wherever you listen to podcasts, So we talk a lot about men on this show. We've had a lot of women would reach out. But our top podcast downloads role was about women's topics. E think that we should have a women's health show and just talk about a couple of men's things and those will be downloaded. Well, no segments. We call them. That's what she said. That's what she said. So we have a That's what she said happening today, she said today, Dr Lipe Hunter life Dr Kendall Life has a doctor in physical therapist. Very physical therapy here period. I think I pronounce it like I read it therapy. She is one of our newest additions to our practice. She joins Dr Angela Tredway are other physical therapist who's been with us for over a decade on really helps us be able to provide what I think is that comprehensive care we have discussed where physical therapy plays a role in a number of different men's health topics like pelvic plain, a pelvic pain, erectile dysfunction, a testicular pain, and I thought we talked today with Kendall about where physical Therapy plays a role in women. So thank you for joining us today. Kendall Carson. My God Beer, So I think that most people if they were to understand what you did is a profession would think that you see a majority of women with that right? Definitely. And I would say that's true for the majority of public for Pts, now, in a urology practice. That's different, though, because you know, a lot of our patients are men, and we're really trying to seek out additional ways for them to get treated. But in women in general, what do women generally see a pelvic floor physical therapist for I think the most stereotypical reason woman come see us is pre postpartum issues, particularly postpartum, but some pre partum as well. So a lot of women have problems with pain with sex or incontinence after having kids or the house from tearing on scar tissue, whether to the C section or the PCR to me, so there's some of the big ones that we see most common patients. That's fascinating, so it wouldn't really occurred to me that that young women who just gave birth that's what we're talking about are going to be One of the most common things that you've trained on our patients that you're going to see, because we don't see a lot of women. You know what her practices just gave birth, So a lot of those people are coming, you know to tell before physical therapist in and outside practice did you know in Europe? Actually, a lot of countries in Europe. It's just It's a common place for them. Like, Oh, I had a baby. I'm gonna go see the pole for Patino, which I think is awesome. And they know over there. It's not normal for women. It doesn't employment don't have to leave After you have a baby. I mean, it is normal, but it's also very treatable and should be treated the one area that I Thought was very valuable was the s. I joint pain, the sacred ilya joint pain that would occur prior to giving birth. My own wife had that And you know a lot of people have it. And then after physical therapy and wearing a belt Asai belt really helped a lot of those people not have that pain. Definitely. Maybe because your wife had six Children. So so many men in your pregnant wife is a.
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"Do so. Well, Dr Rasmussen. We have run out of time. We'd like to thank you as always protecting time to be with us. It's always a pleasure to be here with you, Ira. Thank you. And please stay in touch as you move across the border to our neighbors to the north. I will. Absolutely That'll be sometime in March or April, and I'm happy to come back via the airwaves anytime. Dr. Angela Rasmussen, virologist at Georgetown University's Center for Global Health and Security, she's based in Seattle. For the rest of the hour, Looking at how cells age and whether there's anything that can be done to slow, stop or even reverse. That process has DNA ages. It gains sort of dust bunnies. Extra method groups tacked on and those metal groups can affect how the genes themselves are expressed. Without changing the actual sequence of genes and work published in the journal Nature. Researchers are looking at whether reversing that methylation can sweep away some of their craft and reprogrammed the cells back to a more youthful state. And it can, at least in mouse. I sells joining me now to talk about the work and what it means is one of the authors of that report. Davidson Claire professor in the Department of Genetics, Co director of the Paul If Glen Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Med School. Welcome to Science Friday. Thanks. Sorry. It's great to be on What do you mean, when we say a cell is aging? What happens to this cell over time? Well, this has been a debate for all at least 40 50 years, and there's really a lot that goes on in an aging cells. Many Of your listeners would know about the shortening of the ends of chromosomes called telomeres. We get proteins that accumulate that. Exacerbate Alzheimer's disease. But there's a new theory about aging. That's gaining a lot of traction. And that is that the cells forget how to function correctly because they cannot read that Dina correctly, and that's really what my labs being focused on for the last few years, and we recently published about How to manipulate that process. In fact, your group looked at a way to wind back the clock in the cells to tell us how you did that. What's being discovered Just in last five or so years about aging is that there is this clock seized name Ethel Chemicals that accumulate like crust on Dina, and we can read those very easily. A student in my lab could tell you your rough biological age within about 5% error within about a day. It's pretty easy on what this predicts. Actually, is that How old you are biologically not chronologically. Throw away the birthday candles and some people are older than they would otherwise think in some way younger. And it's also predicts how sick and or healthy they're going to be an old age and this DNA methylation clock we think is part off the system that goes wrong during aging. And what we tested was if we could reverse or scrape off those metal groups and reset the cell. Maybe aging would actually go backwards. And you did this in mice in ice cells cells in the eye? Well, yeah, we're not an eye lab, but we thought the I would be one place to start. Often, people ask me. Did you choose the eye because you thought it would work? In fact, my student at the time one Chang Lu picked the eye because he's he likes the eye, but what we did in the lab was we spent a few years actually one Chang spent a few years Failing to reverse the age of cells and and if he succeeded, typically, those cells became tumor. Genic, in other words, could form tumors in an animal of probably in a human, too. It's very difficult. It turns out to reverse aging partially without going all the way back to a stem cell, which, of course we don't want to do because that's essentially what a cancer is. But he hit upon a really specific three gene combination that was able to partially reversed the age of cells in the dish, but not go too far, and we applied that to the nerves at the back of The eye in mice on git did reverse the age of those cells. So you restored the vision in mice who had lost their vision by turning the clock back exactly right. But what was questioned at the time before our paper was, if you turn the clock back, is it just symbolic? Or does it actually have an effect on the cells similar to if you move the hands of a clock backward? You're not going to change time. This was the belief But what we discovered is that this three gene combination these jeans actually come from from from embryos. Typically a turn on during embryo Genesis. We call it Those three genes actually didn't just wind the clock back, but the cells came back to life and had a youthful Hadn't of genes on and off and they actually started to function as though they were young again. You don't wind the cells all the way back to where they were in the embryo. He just goes certain distance. Yes. So that's the exciting part about this is that if you use this right this combination The cells have a barrier to losing their identity and going back too far. Which is remarkable that it exists. We just lucked out. We didn't know that that was even possible. But also what's what's fascinating is that the cells Somehow have a backup copy of the useful parents and we're searching for where that information is stored right now. And you're saying that there's no reason why this could not be applied to other cells in the body to reverse aging. Yeah, actually, What's exciting is that there are many labs now who are working on this week. We call it partial epigenetic reprogramming or We're starting to use the word rejuvenation and they're testing other tissues. We we've now tested other cells in the eye, such as the ones that are involved in macular degeneration. It seems to be working there. Colleagues of mine have rejuvenated muscle on there are rumors of other tissues working. There was a recent paper from Spain. Men will surround no colleague of ours, who rejuvenated the brain. In mice and improved memory. So we think that this could be a And I say it a universal way to reverse aging in mammals and perhaps one day in people. Amara Plato, This is science Friday from W. N. Y C studios. So let's get to that part about people because that's what everybody is going to be asking. What do you need to have a proof of concept in people here? Well in the mice. What we saw were we had three different experiments. We saw nerves regrow when they were injured. We saw that glaucoma. Which is I think many people know his pressure induced damage to the retina. On just old age, We took those three systems in mice. And our three gene. Combination actually improved the function of the eye. In all three cases. In the case of glaucoma and old age, we looked at vision. And it was improved on the case of the old mice. It was actually restored to young mice. I came home after getting that result with the lab and said, We wake your blindness, a twist in mice, and I think my wife told me to go empty the dishwasher, But it was really interesting fight, but to your question. We think that we can. We want to try to attempt to reverse blindness or vision loss in people and we're going to start with patients who have glaucoma. And when would that start? Well, there's AH local company here in Boston Life Biosciences that's working towards that. It's probably a couple of years at least before we start to Put the gene therapy as it is right now are into patients, but we're working as hard as we can to safely make that possible. You know, people are going to hear this interview and they're gonna want to get In on this treatment, or perhaps even the tests themselves. Is there any way to do that? No, not not yet. It Z Not at the stage where I would say we know enough about it. It is a very powerful Potential medicine that's doing things that we thought were impossible. Just a few years ago, but it went out of the point where we can treat anybody. You know this is for most medicines, but particularly when it comes to gene therapy. This is Truly rewinding the clock and we don't know some fundamental things such as. How long does the effect last? How many times can you repeat the process? So we've engineered out gene therapy to be induce it'll What that means is we can give a mouse and hopefully patient on antibiotic that turns the jeans on for, say, three weeks. And then you turn it off. And then perhaps you could turn it on a few years later, if you needed to with your doctor's permission, So that's where we're heading. But no, Please don't contact me asking for any treatments just yet. Well, this sounds amazing doctors and clear We wish you all the best of luck here. Thanks Ira really appreciate the chance to be on favorite. Sinclair is a professor in the Department of Genetics.
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"Of course, that vaccine is not yet approved in the U. S. However, the UK is also recommended that for the Fizer vaccine on Bear is no data about the effect that delaying a second dose might have so again. This really falls into the category of something that we can think about, we can discuss and if we do decide to move to this, we should actually test it. Before we start doing this. It's scale because we really don't know what the results would be from that. Yes. So we're basically conducting real life experiment. That's exactly right. And my my other problem with this strategy is that I get that we are in a very dire, very urgent situation right now, with the numbers of cases that we have But at the same time we are really in a situation where the problem right now is vaccine supplies, so we don't necessarily need to do that again. We need to work out the problems with distributing the vaccines that we already have. Before we try to figure out how we can protect more people by stretching the supplies that are limited. Aren't there other one dose vaccines in the pipeline? I'm thinking of like Johnson and Johnson. That's right. So Johnson and Johnson is a different type of vaccine from the Fizer and Madonna vaccines. Those air M Marani vaccines that essentially give yourselves instructions on how to make the spike protein. From Stars current virus to that your immune system will then respond to the Johnson and Johnson vaccine actually uses a different virus called an adenovirus that will replicate to a certain degree and produce that protein from stars current virus to the spike protein. It's thought that sometimes vaccines that involve actually some level of virus replication can induce alone in one dose. Those longer term immune responses just because they're they're more stimulatory to your immune system. And the Johnson and Johnson vaccine is in phase three trials that will probably read out this month or at least in early February, and I believe that they're evaluating both of to dose and a single shot regimen. So if that single shot regimen shows efficacy levels anywhere near the Fizer and Madeira, no vaccines, I think that might end this argument for good because well suddenly have a huge supply of an alternative vaccine. It's actually also easier to distribute than the MRT vaccines because it doesn't require the same sort of cold storage that those vaccines Geo and JJ has the capacity to make a lot of vaccine, don't they? They do and the viral vectored adenovirus system that they're using. They've actually already developed as an experimental vaccine for HIV. So they already have the manufacturing capacity for that. They further built that out as they were evaluating these vaccines. I think that could be a real game changer, assuming that it does show the same level of efficacy that the fighter and Madonna vaccines did. There was some talk that when the Biden administration took over that it might sort of nationalized the vaccine production effort the way we did in World War two. We told the auto companies to make tanks instead of cars. Could. Could you see that happening? I think so. I think that you know, there's been a lot of talk about using the defense production Act for both vaccines, as well as for components of the vaccine supply chains, so things like Sterile saline, sterile liquids that are used to formulate the vaccines, glass vials and rubber stoppers and syringes. All that kind of thing that people don't think a lot about, but that are obviously really necessary for Not only creating vaccines but means to actually administer them to people. We've also heard a lot of discussion about using the Defense Production Act to make PPE for health care workers. And potentially also for the American people, so to provide people with more means to protect themselves, And I think all of those things would be a great use of the defense production act. Ah, lot of the times. I don't like comparing Public health measures to wartime measures. But in this case, I think that we really should see a national effort to do those things. And I think that would be a great way of doing it. Help me understand something about the Whole business about the Corona virus mutating when we talk about it mutating. Are we talking about an entirely different strain that we need to develop a new vaccine for or what? So that's a great question. And this is one thing I think that gets very confusing is that people often use the word strain quite a bit. But the words strain actually is not tremendously specific. In terms of virologists, some people will use it to mean A variant that's genetically distinct. Some people will use it to mean variant that's immunologically distinct, and some people sort of use it to describe different viruses that emerged in different places. For example, like if you looked at the different rebel of viruses that have caused outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the 2018 Ebola virus would be different strain from the 2016 Abel, a virus that emerged there, so the term strain isn't very precise, and people use it a lot of times very differently. The variance that have been described so far in the United Kingdom and in South Africa, You know it's debatable whether you want to call them a strain, but they're genetically different and they keep thing there is that they have a number of different point mutations and some deletions. Throughout the genome. What we don't really know is what those different mutations do. Now it's normal for RNA viruses like Corona viruses to acquire mutations every time they replicate. So it's not surprising that we're seeing a lot of different variants emerging because the coronavirus unfortunately has had many opportunities to replicate, since it spread so broadly through the population, What's alarming about these two variances that they seem to be more transmissible? Fortunately, they don't seem to be more pathogenic. They don't seem to make disease worse, but they do seem to be much easier to transmit to people, which is a problem for health care system Right now, we don't know actually if they will have any effect on immunity produced by the vaccines, but they could So far, it's looking more like the variant that was identified. First in South Africa is more likely to have an impact on immunity. But those experiments are in progress, and we don't actually know that right now. Myra Plato. This is science Friday from W. N. Y C studios. 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"Of course, that vaccine is not yet approved in the U. S. However, the UK is also recommended that for the Fizer vaccine on Bear is no data about the effects that Delaine a second dose might have So again. This really falls into the category of something that we can think about, we can discuss and if we do decide to move to this, we should actually test it. Before we start doing this. It's scale. Because we really don't know what the results would be from that. Yes, so we're basically conducting a real life experiment. That's exactly right. And my my other problem with this strategy is that I get that we are in a very dire, very urgent situation right now, with the numbers of cases that we have But at the same time we are really in a situation where the problem right now is vaccine supplies, so we don't necessarily need to do that again. We need to work out the problems with distributing the vaccines that we already have before we try to figure out how we can protect more people by stretching the supplies that are limited. Aren't there other one dose vaccines in the pipeline? I'm thinking of like Johnson and Johnson. That's right. So Johnson and Johnson is a different type of vaccine from the Fizer and Madonna vaccines. Those air M Marani vaccines that essentially give yourselves instructions on how to make the spike protein. From Stars current virus to that your immune system will then respond to the Johnson and Johnson vaccine actually uses a different virus called an adenovirus that will replicate to a certain degree and produce that protein from stars current virus to the spike protein. It's thought that sometimes vaccines that involve actually some level of virus replication can induce alone in one dose. Those longer term immune responses just because they're they're more stimulatory to your immune system of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine is in phase three trials that will probably read out this month or at least in early February, and I believe that they're evaluating both of to dose and a single shot regimen. So if that single shot regimen shows efficacy levels anywhere near the Fizer and Madonna vaccines, I think that might end this argument for good because well suddenly have a huge supply of an alternative vaccine. It's actually also easier to distribute than the MRT vaccines because it doesn't require the same sort of cold storage that those vaccines Geo and JJ has the capacity to make a lot of vaccine, don't they? They do and the viral vectored adenovirus system that they're using. They've actually already developed as an experimental vaccine for HIV. So they already have the manufacturing capacity for that. They further built that out as they were evaluating these vaccines. I think that could be a real game changer. Assuming that it does show the same level of efficacy that the Fizer Moderna vaccines did. There was some talk that when the Biden administration took over that it might sort of nationalized the vaccine production. Effort the way we did in World War two. We told the auto companies to make tanks instead of cars. Could you could you see that happening? I think so. I think that you know, there's been a lot of talk about using the defense production act for both that scenes as well as for components of the vaccine supply chains, so things like Sterile saline, sterile liquids that are used to formulate the vaccines, glass vials and rubber stoppers and syringes. All that kind of thing that people don't think a lot about, but that are obviously really necessary for not only creating vaccines, but means to actually administer them to people. We've also heard a lot of discussion about using the Defense Production act to make PPE for health care workers. And potentially also for the American people, so to provide people with more means to protect themselves, And I think all of those things would be a great use of the defense production act. Ah, lot of the times. I don't like comparing Public health measures to wartime measures. But in this case, I think that we really should see a national effort to do those things. And I think that would be a great way of doing it. Help me understand something about the Whole business about the Corona virus mutating when we talk about it mutating. Are we talking about an entirely different strain that we need to develop a new vaccine for or what? So that's a great question. And this is one thing I think that gets very confusing is that people often use the word strain quite a bit. But the words strain actually is not tremendously specific. In terms of virologists, some people will use it to mean A variant is genetically distinct. Some people will use it to mean variant that's immunologically distinct, and some people sort of use it to describe different viruses that emerged in different places. For example, like if you looked at the different rebel of viruses that have caused outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the 2018 Ebola virus is a different strain from the 2016 Abel, a virus that emerged there, so the term strain isn't very precise, and people use it a lot of times very differently. The variance that have been described so far in the United Kingdom and in South Africa, you know it's debatable whether you want to call them a strain, but they're genetically difference. And they key thing there is that they have a number of different point mutations and some deletions. Throughout the genome. What we don't really know is what those different mutations do. Now it's normal for RNA viruses like Corona viruses to acquire mutations every time they replicate. So it's not surprising that we're seeing a lot of different variants emerging because the coronavirus unfortunately has had many opportunities to replicate, since it spread so broadly through the population. What's alarming about these two variances that they seem to be more transmissible? Fortunately, they don't seem to be more pathogenic. They don't seem to make disease worse. But they do seem to be much easier to transmit to people, which is a problem for health care system Right now, we don't know actually if they will have any effect on immunity produced by the vaccines, but they could So far, it's looking more like the variant that was identified. First in South Africa is more likely to have an impact on immunity. But those experiments are in progress. And we don't actually know that right now, Um, I read Plato. This is science Friday from W. N. Y C studios. 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"This is science Friday. I'm Ira Plato. It's a new week in a new year, And that means there's a whole slew of covert news to take a look at all this new information about vaccines and mutations. It can be pretty overwhelming. Right, So we're here to fact, Check your feet with our gas. Dr. Angela Rasmussen favor ologists at Georgetown University's Center for Global Health and Security. She's based in Seattle. Welcome back, Angela. Always great to have you. It's always great to be here, IRA. Thanks for having me you're quite welcome. Let's start with distribution of the vaccine for a minute. We've seen a lot of coverage that the U. S fell very short of its goal. Vaccinating 20 million people by the end of 2020. In fact, we hear that just over three million doses were administered. Why did we fall so short? Well, I think one of the reasons we fell so short and it is really complicated in this I should add, is a disclaimer that I am not involved in any way in the distribution, so I only know about this from a sort of bigger picture level. But I think that one of the big problems that we've had with distribution is the fact that there really is no centralized vaccine distribution plan. Operation works speeds involvement in that really ends at the point where they allocate the vaccines to the different states. And at that point, it becomes each individual state or localities responsibility to distribute that vaccine and some states are doing better than others, for example. Some states have implemented policies that actually make the vaccine much more difficult to access for some people such as New York, in which the vaccines are only to be given out at hospitals right now, when we have an unprecedented number of covert patients going into hospitals that makes using that environment to also distribute vaccines to healthy people. Very challenging, So it's a really complex problem. It has a lot to do with logistics, and it also has a lot to do with all the different rules in the different places where the vaccines are actually being distributed on the ground. Yeah, We have no national policy. That would be the same for everybody. That's exactly right. And this was a problem that we also saw with with really testing each state And sometimes local health departments are predominantly involved in doing these tests and collecting the data and then reporting it to a centralized federal data call later, and this has also really lead to a lot of confusion, trying to look at the national numbers. Rather than the numbers by states on DSA. Now we're seeing the same thing with vaccine distribution. It really does argue that for really important public health measures that affect all of us in the U. S. They're really does need to be a federal national plan to unify us and to make sure that these things run smoothly. Do you think now that we're getting a new president in a couple of weeks that things could speed up with the new administration? I really hope so. And certainly President elect Biden has made it clear that he does. Plans to have more of a federal plan. He plans to provide more federal leadership and I really do think that's what's needed because we shouldn't be able to access Really critical public health measures like vaccines based on the politics of who our local governor or leaders are you know a few years ago when Tony Fatty was on the show talking about vaccinations because we used to have him on regularly? Hey, he related a story that when he was a young child, I think he was six or seven and he was living in New York. And there was an outbreak of smallpox in New York City, but because everybody used to get inoculated with smallpox. Remember when you were a baby? They don't do that anymore. Yes, the infrastructure. I'm actually not that old, but I know the story. Well, the infrastructure was there so that they could inoculate what eight million people in two weeks. I mean, doesn't that speak to us? Hey, we've learned a lesson. We should create a permanent infrastructure because we're going to have more outbreaks of viruses. Absolutely. And you know, smallpox is a great example of that. That was the first vaccine in fact. Vaccines are called vaccines because the virus that you used to inoculate somebody against smallpox or very old virus is vaccinia virus or cowpox. Virus s O. Technically, a vaccine is on Lee really? A smallpox inoculation because most vaccines are not based on vaccinia virus. Now, of course, we now use the term generally to mean an immunization. But I think that that's ah great reminder that we should maybe go back to basics that sometimes we need to be able to rapidly and dynamically and flexibly start vaccinating a lot of people, especially if there's an outbreak of a re immersion virus or if there is a new outbreak of a new virus. Now we have all these different vaccine technologies, and we've shown During this pandemic, at least that we can rapidly approve them for for human use, and that they're actually quite efficacious. We need to start thinking about how we can do that. As part of a larger, longer term pandemic and epidemic preparedness plan. We now have two approved vaccines here in the U. S one from Fizer. One from Oh, Derna. These are both two dose vaccines and you know we have been hearing talk about whether not both doses are necessary. Just try to stretch the vaccine supply out what's going on here so that that was first proposed before we started to realize what serious issues we were having with vaccine distribution. The idea there was when those vaccines were submitted to the FDA for evaluation for emergency use authorization. Both of them showed a certain level of protection after the first shot. And after about 14 days after you get your first shot, there's really measurable protection conferred by that one shot now, the caveats There is that. That we don't know how long that protection would last after just one shot because, of course, the clinical trials were evaluating them as two shot regimens. So knowing that we would only have about 20 million doses of each by the end of 2020 people have proposed. Maybe we can give people one shot and that will confer some protection. And then either we could leave it at one shot. Or maybe we could give them a second shot. Just later on. We have more vaccine supplies. Now I think that there is married to some of those arguments. But the real caveat. There is that we don't have any efficacy data on changing up the dose in regimen so right now, given that we aren't able to get the vaccines that we do have into people's arms. I think it's really premature to be suggesting that we just change the dose and schedules. Without doing any research to see if that would provide the same level of protection as the dozing schedules that were actually evaluated and the U. K. I understand is trying this one dose method right now, The UK is actually recommending a delayed second dose. So there is a difference with that. Now it may be, You know, we do get many vaccines and what's called a prime boost regimen where you get the first dose and then you get a booster shot later on. And for some vaccines, we know that you can get that booster shot over a large range of time. And in fact, one of the trials for the AstraZeneca vaccine did give the second dose up to 12 weeks later and didn't see measurable decrease in efficacy..
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"And as more states begin that task of opening up for business there are still many people that will continue to avoid crowds until there is that vaccines to get ready to wait ABC's Erica tears you with details on the controversial way some scientists want to speed up the process most experts think a coronavirus vaccine is at least a year away vaccine trials are usually slow as thousands of recruits wait for exposure one way to hasten things along as a challenge trial in which patients are injected with the live virus taking otherwise healthy adults and injecting them with a virus that could have serious consequences including death aside from the moral dilemma they posed Dr Angela Baldwin at Montefiore Medical Center said challenge trials also way a deeper understanding of the virus against
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Kentucky's re openings of health care services dog groomers can reopen in Wisconsin we're corona virus has hit harder it's different the governor of New Jersey said today restrictions continue indefinitely and the governor of New York said he expected to extend them for the city and its suburbs but the lunch crowd came back in parts of Georgia as our affiliate WSB found a chance to eat inside a restaurant Kim Kucera says this Brookhaven waffle house was her first choice the family hang out we are talking about the whole field in this family in the champ wasn't here this day but the company says no matter who walks in some things haven't changed they're going to get that welcome the waffle house the greeting that we're all excited to be able to give them for when they come in it'll be very clear where they can and cannot said company spokesperson in Gerry boss showed us the big red tape strapped across some of the books and some of the schools are also off limits to maintain safe social distancing the cooks and servers are all wearing masks and X. marks the spot where you can stand as you wait for a seat some don't like governor camp's decision to allow restaurants like this to re open their dining rooms but boss believes many of the critics may be able to work from home while still collecting a paycheck to say that when they still have all of those things we want to be here to make sure that everybody who wants to go and have the opportunity to can take care of themselves and their family that's the American way as for Kim cassette as she feels comfortable eating inside says there's a sense of home here and it all starts off with waffle house what can't get any more American the waffle house right many will never feel comfortable venturing out or re opening a business without a vaccine and most experts think that's at least a year away some scientists are considering rather unconventional ways to speed up the process one of them raises some moral questions we're joined by Dr Angela Baldwin of Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx is also part of our medical team here at ABC news Dr Baldwin this method involves injecting healthy adults with live coronavirus correct so this is called a challenge trial where healthy adults are divided into two groups one group received a placebo and the other group receives the potential vaccine but both groups are injected with the virus and the point is for them to for researchers to see how effective the vaccine is against the virus and this kind of speed up the timeline because normally in a normal situation what somebody receives a vaccine the researchers just have to kind of wait for that person to naturally be infected with whatever virus or disease that the vaccines intended to treat is it the only way to do this definitely not this normally vaccine trials go through three phases phase one phase to help determine the specific dosing that safe and then you know an overall kind of safety of the vaccine and then in phase three is when they do these large very large trials for the enroll thousands of patients and a half receive the vaccine the other half isn't but then they just kind of track them and follow them throughout their daily lives and see okay all this group you know they were exposed to the virus and it looks like the vaccine worked the problem is these are just very long and then kind of a bit cumbersome and so that's why some researchers are proposing this challenge trial the kind of by pass phase three doesn't raise any moral dilemmas definitely a moral dilemmas they do try to mitigate the risk but the fact of the matter is we are taking otherwise healthy adults and injecting them with a virus that could have serious consequences including death the other side they do try to mitigate the risks they would only be enrolling healthy adult volunteers without underlying medical conditions but the problem is we do know that unfortunately there are young people who are still dying from call the nineteen you may also not have any underlying conditions there's still so much we don't know that just makes it's completely unsafe and the other problem is if somebody does get very sick you know we're dealing with a health care crisis right now work the critical care that one may need may not always be readily available and resources may be scarce so to inject somebody of the virus and the potentially kill them and put them in a situation where they urgently need critical care that might not be available raises a few eyebrows from from office I guess it's tempting though when everyone wants the vaccine this seems like the speediest way you know if they could and and one of the questions we ask ourselves is how much does this speed up the the normal course of us finding a vaccine right so if it only speeded up by one month maybe not that great of an idea of the speeded up by six months eight months okay maybe but also the thing to realize is that the challenge trials only one part of a of a two step process these researchers are suggesting would replace phase three so you still have the challenge of trial where the people are given the live virus but then in the second part they would need to test the vaccine on the most vulnerable members of the population right the elderly people under my medical conditions these are the people who really need the vaccine so we need to make sure it's safe in them so during the second phase they would give each of those types of people the vaccine but they would not be injecting them with the with the virus so that means we still in this kind of things were waiting for these people to in the natural course of their days be exposed to the virus so it's really not short meaning that the for the third phase by that much if you think about it who's going to decide ultimately you know that's a very good question I think ultimately we have these things called internal review boards RBC and they are designed to look out for the welfare of participants in subjects in studies and I think it's basically going to fall on the individual IRB's to decide whether or not they're going to allow this to to commission their institution Dr Angela Baldwin of the ABC news medical unit while the world waits for a vaccine all of us adapt to new routines out of our offices and working from say the kitchen table firms are now debating how and whether to repopulate offices small workers are deciding whether they're comfortable taking off the sweat pants and putting back on the suit consumer minute vices law firm said soy Hauser group you joins us from Chicago we're all kind of getting used to this aren't we yes you know I think this is going better than many law firms thought it would technology working well generally people are productive at home some people even like it what's not to like you can be in your pajamas and still accomplish the same kind of work you know in a candid moment a lot of lawyers would probably tell you that and I think that there is upside for both lawyers and for firms to do that the flexibility is something the people of wanted since before the crisis in some law firms before the crisis we're taking small steps towards being more flexible about where people worked and they saw upside both in attracting talent who wanted to be working where they were comfortable where they were where it was convenient also for the law firms there's a big expense of course on the real estate side real estate for most law firms is their second biggest expense behind paying lawyers so they're interested long term many law firms are in using less space why would any firm go back to renting expensive space again if this is working it's that's a great question different firms are different so some firms before the crisis we're happy to move towards less space and I think that the crisis will accelerate the move towards less space for those firms other firms the before the crisis had a culture of being in the office together they placed a premium on facetime and I think after the crisis some of those firms will revert to form and they will want to be in the office more so there will be some that accelerate towards work at home more and take on less space and I think others will want to snap back to how they were previously law firms like many other firms can be notoriously inflexible though about people's time has the shortest that it can work differently I think that this crisis has proven that actually can work pretty well for many lawyers in many firms different lawyers have practices that lend themselves to working remotely so for example a lawyer who needs to appear in court or take depositions in person that doesn't work as well remotely of course others though K. and worked quite productively from anywhere and that works for the firm in for their clients when you ask people what the impediments are to remote working some of the things that come up are things like whether 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C. news correspondent Amy Robach and with me now is ABC chief medical correspondent Dr Jen Ashton and there is some big news about colleges and universities considering re opening in the fall let's go through this systematically how it would work well first of all I mean we have to acknowledge is a complex situation in the health and safety of not just this population but the entire college and university community is obviously priority number one but here are some things that we know at this point medically we know that the college age group is at a lower risk of severe covert nineteen disease we also know that in this age group and in this environment social distancing is definitely going to be uniquely challenging and we also know that there are people in these communities whether they're college students with pre existing medical conditions or the staff or faculty that worked in and around colleges that could be vulnerable and may be at higher risk as well what options should be considered well I think there are some theories that are worth really exploring the first thing is is can we modify the timing of the spacing some of the classroom activities some of the other activities they shouldn't be looked at like an all or none decision in terms of sports theatre dormitory dining all of those things could be modified it's not an all or one situation and we have to remember that masks once the CDC recommended that for the general public they may be a key tool in reducing the transmission of this virus in the college communities from a health standpoint what do we still need to figure out well look luckily we have a little bit of time to do this but I think there is still a lot of things we don't know where to begin with we don't know what the role of rapid testing on a college campus can look like we don't know whether to college students and whether our kids will actually be compliant with some of the social distancing measures and we really don't know when you talk about risks which is worse right now going back to college in some way shape or form or take taking another year plus and not going back you both have to weigh those risks head to head and it's not an easy answer all right Dr Jenna you're sticking around to answer questions in just a bit in the meantime we turn out A. B. C.'s kera Phillips in Washington DC with the latest headlines for us hi Amy well these are some of the stories that were watching plans to re open the economy are taking shape in a number of states restaurants in Atlanta starting up again with new rules in place for diners today including tables six feet apart and servers wearing masks and in New Jersey governor Phil Murphy is unveiling what he calls responsible re opening driven by quote data science and common sense and Texas governor Greg Abbott also detail in the plan for ending his statewide stay at home orders and re emerging for the first time today after pretty brutal bout of the virus British prime minister Boris Johnson apologizing for being away for three weeks and warning it's too soon to end the locked down in the U. K. speaking outside number ten Downing Street Johnson says we are now beginning to turn the tide on this disease but says he refuses to throw away the public's effort and sacrifice by relaxing the lockdown too soon thank you well the mayor of Las Vegas made headlines last week when she volunteered the city as a control group to see if social distancing is working joining us now to talk about how and when Las Vegas will reopen as Clark County commissioner Marilyn Kirkpatrick welcome commissioner and I want to first start by asking how you feel about mayor Goodman's comments well I don't agree with her you know my colleagues and I who oversee the beautiful Las Vegas Strip bill that we have to our highest priority needs to be the health and safety of not only our residents we work on this trip but the visitors who come to visit us yeah and that said the mayor also feels hotels casinos restaurants should reopen right now when do you think they should reopen and what will the economic impact three well we've been working every single day with our medical experts across the state a resort association are McCarron airport and the convention that's already so we are working in that direction testing is the key to getting us back open and we are in the middle of expanding that testing opportunities so we will open only when it's safe and we have the most stringent priorities and policies in place can you talk a little bit about specifically how the county is working with the casinos there and other businesses to prevent another outbreak when you do eventually re open well I thought back to we we have been successfully doing social doesn't change we are ramping up casting today we can do up to two thousand tests today we anticipate by June first being able to ten thousand task our hotel partners and our airports they're making some adjustments so that our visitors bilberry see it coming back and that is our priority and we'll invite everybody back when we feel that we can meet those and do you do you how do you feel the people of Clark County are doing in terms of doing that social distancing and following the guidelines you know we're doing a great job every single day we look at different ways I mean even as we bring back our own stops we have to think about how do we have that social distancing and the grocery stores we have lines out for running grocery lines one way I'm so I I'm very proud of what we're doing in our community on the social distancing face while commissioner Marilyn Kirkpatrick we know it's a tough job thank you for leading the people who use Sir we appreciate your time today thank you get back to work some schools may still be close so where do we go from there the CEO of childcare provider bright horizons Stephen Kramer is here to tell us and Stephen thanks for being with us I know that you have locations daycare locations across the country how many of your facilities remain open so we have a hundred and fifty centers here across the United States that are continuing to be operational and are clearly working under covert nineteen protocols yeah that is pretty surprising I think for a lot of us and and I'm sure so helpful to so many who need your facilities how are you able to keep them open safely absolutely so first and foremost we are focused on those hundred and fifty centers on providing care for essential workers most typically healthcare workers in so first and foremost we are really focused on that particular population in terms of keeping our staff as well as children safe we have implemented processes and procedures in conjunction with a medical expert Dr Kristen Moffett from Boston children's hospital whereby we are ensuring that we are able to keep children safe keep staff safe and really make sure that we are operating both from hygiene perspective as well as from a safety perspective really in an appropriate way so hundred fifty centers open right now what changes will need to be implemented though when day cares fully open back up yes so I I think families can expect a number of changes from what they experience prior to the pandemic also examples include pick up and drop off so often times they will be seen either staggered pick up and drop offs or alternatively it may be curbside pick up and drop off I think certainly I health checks either being asked to be done at home or being done at the centre when they arrive is an important element of keeping everyone safe in addition to that the teachers they will be wearing masks when when families returned and certainly in the bright horizons centers that are open today our teachers are wearing masks also those are the kinds of things they might expect in addition to enhanced hygiene protocols yeah it's Stephen is there anything parents can do now to be prepared for what's to come I think there are things that parents can be doing I think first and foremost it's really important for parents to make sure that they are checking the health of their child each morning and each and every day to make sure that they are not bring their child if they have any sign or symptom of a health issue I think in addition to that children won't be used to the teachers wearing masks that's not something that they would have experienced previously and so my recommendation would be to as a parent start wearing masks around the house start to educate your child that heroes wear masks and certainly the teachers in the centers are heroes and so experiencing and exposing them to that concept is important and then finally I would encourage pet parents to prepare themselves they need to have a little bit of extra patience and I would encourage them to show appreciation for the teachers who are working tirelessly through both now and in the future in the child care center environment I think so many parents are home right now have a absolute renewed appreciation of teachers and I love what you said heroes wear masks that's awesome Stephen Kramer thank you so much for being with us today we appreciate it thank you for having me UP next right here those masks are suddenly everywhere and officials say it's a good idea but the sight of them can frighten our children some techniques for helping them deal when we come back this can be seen news special continues after this eleven eleven thirty thirty in in the the core core rate rate carrier carrier W. 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Ashton will masks and face coverings have become such a familiar sight around the country in this corona virus pandemic with a number of states now requiring them during visits to essential businesses and on public transportation but the sight of them can be scary especially for children A. B. C.'s Ariel Russia has more on what you can do to help lessen their anxiety Hey there any as you know kids can ask some pretty tough questions and this can actually be scary for them as you mention when they see people out there wearing masks they see their parents wearing masks but experts say there are ways to help them adapt to this new normal and some of them are not only just educational but they can even be fine faking street shuttered businesses empty playgrounds the images of this covert nineteen pandemic are hard for even adults to process but for kids like four year old alley and five year old Adriana Alfano seeing people wearing masks is perhaps the most jarring it they just I was really strange a new normal forcing families like the L. fan I was to have some tough conversations it does open up both a big can of worms and a lot of different questions public face covering now recommended by the CDC for adults and children ages two and up how do you think the imagery of people wearing masks can affect kids well initially when kids see someone wearing a mask depending on what they associate it with before it could bring up some beer new dad and entrepreneur Trevor George and his wife Morgan wanted to help ease that anxiety we believe that in order to solve this everyone has to do their part Michigan based teacher company struggling when the pandemic hit economy it had the two created mass club issues like it has to be a way you can help and work with your branch at the same time retiring more than fifty percent of their furloughed employees or adults with a lot of characters like hello Kitty Wonder Woman Batman and Superman we have an eight month old and when my wife and I put on our Batman or Wonder Woman masks he reaches for the colors that has a familiar logo can help your child more east club a passion project with added and for every mass that's purchased we donate a medical grade version two first responders in partnership with the first responders children's need and creating a bright spot family having some fun some levity and then mixing them with information Trevor says that they have donated nearly one hundred thousand masks already any clearly this idea of wearing a branded logo mask and also doing some good while you're in the process of that is really resonate yeah it's a win win I was even saying I know kids it's scary to them it's scary to me sometimes when you see people because it is jarring seeing circle in masks all of a sudden what tools can parents use when they talk about this with their children well doctor Taylor says it's important to impress upon your kids that they're taking care of themselves they're taking care of others this is a safety precaution just like wearing a helmet when you ride a bike or buckling your seat belt when you're in the car and she also says that it's important to have these honest conversations with your kids just be up front with them lead by example when you're comfortable wearing your own mask children see that and they're more at ease as well makes sense and kids are certainly resilient aerial thank you so much for bringing us this we appreciate it for gonna turn out to Dr Jen Ashton for some thoughts on this for some perspective here I mean we have to remember it was just recently that the CDC made a major change of revising their guidelines recommending face coverings for the general public not to protect the person wearing the mask but to protect others so as the saying we're so used to hearing here in New York City it's not about me it's about a week but here's the interesting thing from a medical and scientific standpoint remember that the data on face coverings or masks protecting you was done in a lab right that's why we say in a hospital setting we put masks on sick people with a different kind of mask on health care workers but there's a big difference between scientific research done in a lab setting and those done in a real life setting so we're seeing one of major Boston Medical Center has dropped the rate of its staff cases of covert nineteen dramatically once they instituted a policy where everyone staff patients and visitors started wearing masks so we'll see how it plays out in our country Dr Ashton thank you and when we come back the army of volunteers in one city working hard to help frontline heroes shine these special continues after this about half of all men will experience ET or PT fact both E. 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Kentucky's re openings of health care services dog groomers can reopen in Wisconsin we're corona virus has hit harder it's different the governor of New Jersey said today restrictions continue indefinitely and the governor of New York said he expected to extend them for the city and its suburbs but the lunch crowd came back in parts of Georgia as our affiliate WSB found a chance to eat inside a restaurant Kim Kucera says this Brookhaven waffle house was her first choice the family hang out we are talking about the whole field in this family in the champ wasn't here this day but the company says no matter who walks in some things haven't changed they're going to get that welcome the waffle house the greeting that we're all excited to be able to give them for when they come in it'll be very clear where they can and cannot said company spokesperson in Gerry boss showed us the big red tape strapped across some of the books and some of the schools are also off limits to maintain safe social distancing the cooks and servers are all wearing masks and X. marks the spot where you can stand as you wait for a seat some don't like governor camp's decision to allow restaurants like this to re open their dining rooms but boss believes many of the critics may be able to work from home while still collecting a paycheck to say that when they still have all of those things we want to be here to make sure that everybody who wants to go and have the opportunity to can take care of themselves and their family that's the American way as for Kim cassette as she feels comfortable eating inside says there's a sense of home here and it all starts off with waffle house what can't get any more American the waffle house right many will never feel comfortable venturing out or re opening a business without a vaccine and most experts think that's at least a year away some scientists are considering rather unconventional ways to speed up the process one of them raises some moral questions we're joined by Dr Angela Baldwin of Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx is also part of our medical team here at ABC news Dr Baldwin this method involves injecting healthy adults with live coronavirus correct so this is called a challenge trial where healthy adults are divided into two groups one group received a placebo and the other group receives the potential vaccine but both groups are injected with the virus and the point is for them to for researchers to see how effective the vaccine is against the virus and this kind of speed up the timeline because normally in a normal situation what somebody receives a vaccine the researchers just have to kind of wait for that person to naturally be infected with whatever virus or disease that the vaccines intended to treat is it the only way to do this definitely not this normally vaccine trials go through three phases phase one phase to help determine the specific dosing that safe and then you know an overall kind of safety of the vaccine and then in phase three is when they do these large very large trials for the enroll thousands of patients and a half receive the vaccine the other half isn't but then they just kind of track them and follow them throughout their daily lives and see okay all this group you know they were exposed to the virus and it looks like the vaccine worked the problem is these are just very long and then kind of a bit cumbersome and so that's why some researchers are proposing this challenge trial the kind of by pass phase three doesn't raise any moral dilemmas definitely a moral dilemmas they do try to mitigate the risk but the fact of the matter is we are taking otherwise healthy adults and injecting them with a virus that could have serious consequences including death the other side they do try to mitigate the risks they would only be enrolling healthy adult volunteers without underlying medical conditions but the problem is we do know that unfortunately there are young people who are still dying from call the nineteen you may also not have any underlying conditions there's still so much we don't know that just makes it's completely unsafe and the other problem is if somebody does get very sick you know we're dealing with a health care crisis right now work the critical care that one may need may not always be readily available and resources may be scarce so to inject somebody of the virus and the potentially kill them and put them in a situation where they urgently need critical care that might not be available raises a few eyebrows from from office I guess it's tempting though when everyone wants the vaccine this seems like the speediest way you know if they could and and one of the questions we ask ourselves is how much does this speed up the the normal course of us finding a vaccine right so if it only speeded up by one month maybe not that great of an idea of the speeded up by six months eight months okay maybe but also the thing to realize is that the challenge trials only one part of a of a two step process these researchers are suggesting would replace phase three so you still have the challenge of trial where the people are given the live virus but then in the second part they would need to test the vaccine on the most vulnerable members of the population right the elderly people under my medical conditions these are the people who really need the vaccine so we need to make sure it's safe in them so during the second phase they would give each of those types of people the vaccine but they would not be injecting them with the with the virus so that means we still in this kind of things were waiting for these people to in the natural course of their days be exposed to the virus so it's really not short meaning that the for the third phase by that much if you think about it who's going to decide ultimately you know that's a very good question I think ultimately we have these things called internal review boards RBC and they are designed to look out for the welfare of participants in subjects in studies and I think it's basically going to fall on the individual IRB's to decide whether or not they're going to allow this to to commission their institution Dr Angela Baldwin of the ABC news medical unit while the world waits for a vaccine all of us adapt to new routines out of our offices and working from say the kitchen table firms are now debating how and whether to repopulate offices small workers are deciding whether they're comfortable taking off the sweat pants and putting back on the suit consumer minute vices law firm said soy Hauser group you joins us from Chicago we're all kind of getting used to this aren't we yes you know I think this is going better than many law firms thought it would technology working well generally people are productive at home some people even like it what's not to like you can be in your pajamas and still accomplish the same kind of work you know in a candid moment a lot of lawyers would probably tell you that and I think that there is upside for both lawyers and for firms to do that the flexibility is something the people of wanted since before the crisis in some law firms before the crisis we're taking small steps towards being more flexible about where people worked and they saw upside both in attracting talent who wanted to be working where they were comfortable where they were where it was convenient also for the law firms there's a big expense of course on the real estate side real estate for most law firms is their second biggest expense behind paying lawyers so they're interested long term many law firms are in using less space why would any firm go back to renting expensive space again if this is working it's that's a great question different firms are different so some firms before the crisis we're happy to move towards less space and I think that the crisis will accelerate the move towards less space for those firms other firms the before the crisis had a culture of being in the office together they placed a premium on facetime and I think after the crisis some of those firms will revert to form and they will want to be in the office more so there will be some that accelerate towards work at home more and take on less space and I think others will want to snap back to how they were previously law firms like many other firms can be notoriously inflexible though about people's time has the shortest that it can work differently I think that this crisis has proven that actually can work pretty well for many lawyers in many firms different lawyers have practices that lend themselves to working remotely so for example a lawyer who needs to appear in court or take depositions in person that doesn't work as well remotely of course others though K. and worked quite productively from anywhere and that works for the firm in for their clients when you ask people what the impediments are to remote working some of the things that come up are things like whether 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C. news correspondent Amy Robach and with me now is ABC chief medical correspondent Dr Jen Ashton and there is some big news about colleges and universities considering re opening in the fall let's go through this systematically how it would work well first of all I mean we have to acknowledge is a complex situation in the health and safety of not just this population but the entire college and university community is obviously priority number one but here are some things that we know at this point medically we know that the college age group is at a lower risk of severe covert nineteen disease we also know that in this age group and in this environment social distancing is definitely going to be uniquely challenging and we also know that there are people in these communities whether they're college students with pre existing medical conditions or the staff or faculty that worked in and around colleges that could be vulnerable and may be at higher risk as well what options should be considered well I think there are some theories that are worth really exploring the first thing is is can we modify the timing of the spacing some of the classroom activities some of the other activities they shouldn't be looked at like an all or none decision in terms of sports theatre dormitory dining all of those things could be modified it's not an all or one situation and we have to remember that masks once the CDC recommended that for the general public they may be a key tool in reducing the transmission of this virus in the college communities from a health standpoint what do we still need to figure out well look luckily we have a little bit of time to do this but I think there is still a lot of things we don't know where to begin with we don't know what the role of rapid testing on a college campus can look like we don't know whether to college students and whether our kids will actually be compliant with some of the social distancing measures and we really don't know when you talk about risks which is worse right now going back to college in some way shape or form or take taking another year plus and not going back you both have to weigh those risks head to head and it's not an easy answer all right Dr Jenna you're sticking around to answer questions in just a bit in the meantime we turn out A. B. C.'s kera Phillips in Washington DC with the latest headlines for us hi Amy well these are some of the stories that were watching plans to re open the economy are taking shape in a number of states restaurants in Atlanta starting up again with new rules in place for diners today including tables six feet apart and servers wearing masks and in New Jersey governor Phil Murphy is unveiling what he calls responsible re opening driven by quote data science and common sense and Texas governor Greg Abbott also detail in the plan for ending his statewide stay at home orders and re emerging for the first time today after pretty brutal bout of the virus British prime minister Boris Johnson apologizing for being away for three weeks and warning it's too soon to end the locked down in the U. K. speaking outside number ten Downing Street Johnson says we are now beginning to turn the tide on this disease but says he refuses to throw away the public's effort and sacrifice by relaxing the lockdown too soon thank you well the mayor of Las Vegas made headlines last week when she volunteered the city as a control group to see if social distancing is working joining us now to talk about how and when Las Vegas will reopen as Clark County commissioner Marilyn Kirkpatrick welcome commissioner and I want to first start by asking how you feel about mayor Goodman's comments well I don't agree with her you know my colleagues and I who oversee the beautiful Las Vegas Strip bill that we have to our highest priority needs to be the health and safety of not only our residents we work on this trip but the visitors who come to visit us yeah and that said the mayor also feels hotels casinos restaurants should reopen right now when do you think they should reopen and what will the economic impact three well we've been working every single day with our medical experts across the state a resort association are McCarron airport and the convention that's already so we are working in that direction testing is the key to getting us back open and we are in the middle of expanding that testing opportunities so we will open only when it's safe and we have the most stringent priorities and policies in place can you talk a little bit about specifically how the county is working with the casinos there and other businesses to prevent another outbreak when you do eventually re open well I thought back to we we have been successfully doing social doesn't change we are ramping up casting today we can do up to two thousand tests today we anticipate by June first being able to ten thousand task our hotel partners and our airports they're making some adjustments so that our visitors bilberry see it coming back and that is our priority and we'll invite everybody back when we feel that we can meet those and do you do you how do you feel the people of Clark County are doing in terms of doing that social distancing and following the guidelines you know we're doing a great job every single day we look at different ways I mean even as we bring back our own stops we have to think about how do we have that social distancing and the grocery stores we have lines out for running grocery lines one way I'm so I I'm very proud of what we're doing in our community on the social distancing face while commissioner Marilyn Kirkpatrick we know it's a tough job thank you for leading the people who use Sir we appreciate your time today thank you get back to work some schools may still be close so where do we go from there the CEO of childcare provider bright horizons Stephen Kramer is here to tell us and Stephen thanks for being with us I know that you have locations daycare locations across the country how many of your facilities remain open so we have a hundred and fifty centers here across the United States that are continuing to be operational and are clearly working under covert nineteen protocols yeah that is pretty surprising I think for a lot of us and and I'm sure so helpful to so many who need your facilities how are you able to keep them open safely absolutely so first and foremost we are focused on those hundred and fifty centers on providing care for essential workers most typically healthcare workers in so first and foremost we are really focused on that particular population in terms of keeping our staff as well as children safe we have implemented processes and procedures in conjunction with a medical expert Dr Kristen Moffett from Boston children's hospital whereby we are ensuring that we are able to keep children safe keep staff safe and really make sure that we are operating both from hygiene perspective as well as from a safety perspective really in an appropriate way so hundred fifty centers open right now what changes will need to be implemented though when day cares fully open back up yes so I I think families can expect a number of changes from what they experience prior to the pandemic also examples include pick up and drop off so often times they will be seen either staggered pick up and drop offs or alternatively it may be curbside pick up and drop off I think certainly I health checks either being asked to be done at home or being done at the centre when they arrive is an important element of keeping everyone safe in addition to that the teachers they will be wearing masks when when families returned and certainly in the bright horizons centers that are open today our teachers are wearing masks also those are the kinds of things they might expect in addition to enhanced hygiene protocols yeah it's Stephen is there anything parents can do now to be prepared for what's to come I think there are things that parents can be doing I think first and foremost it's really important for parents to make sure that they are checking the health of their child each morning and each and every day to make sure that they are not bring their child if they have any sign or symptom of a health issue I think in addition to that children won't be used to the teachers wearing masks that's not something that they would have experienced previously and so my recommendation would be to as a parent start wearing masks around the house start to educate your child that heroes wear masks and certainly the teachers in the centers are heroes and so experiencing and exposing them to that concept is important and then finally I would encourage pet parents to prepare themselves they need to have a little bit of extra patience and I would encourage them to show appreciation for the teachers who are working tirelessly through both now and in the future in the child care center environment I think so many parents are home right now have a absolute renewed appreciation of teachers and I love what you said heroes wear masks that's awesome Stephen Kramer thank you so much for being with us today we appreciate it thank you for having me UP next right here those masks are suddenly everywhere and officials say it's a good idea but the sight of them can frighten our children some techniques for helping them deal when we come back this can be seen news special continues after this eleven eleven thirty thirty in in the the core core rate rate carrier carrier W. 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B. latest news and talk listening to an ABC news special Kobe nineteen what you need to know once again here is ABC news correspondent Amy Robach new questions every day about this pandemic emergency Dr Jen Ashton is back with us with some answers to your questions and Dr Jenn we've got our first question I have a family member who needs to fly for work are there any other safety measures besides gloves and masks that you would recommend that is really the most important for the passenger you can try to plan the time of that travel maybe to lower peak hours if that's possible but what's interesting about travel is that some degree of travel is not gonna be optional or elective in the near future so we're starting to see as we've heard before airlines start to play around with how they can help reduce the risk so again cover your mouth and nose clean your hands and for now as an individual that's the best you can do all right our next question our sinus drainage and post nasal drip possible symptoms of cold at nineteen even without a fever interesting because we're hearing the CDC revise the symptom less straight they added six symptoms to cope in nineteen he used to be fever cough shortness of breath now they've extended it to body aches headache loss of smell taste sore throat even headache but here's the important thing with the post nasal drip and allergies we are an allergy season and as I always say you can have more than one thing at a time so yes it's possible that you could have a mild case of cobit and allergies and one of the new symptoms the CDC added was a sore throat so again above the neck symptoms it is possible and I'm sure we're gonna be seeing that list of symptoms get expanded in the future next question I'm a college professor recovering from coded nineteen and I'm struggling with sudden loss of secondary language fluency has there been any research on cognitive impairments related to cope with nineteen no formal research and data out yet Amy but you can imagine how frightening that would be if you start to notice these we you and I've talked here about neurologic manifestations to cove in nineteen there have been reports in the medical literature of people presenting with headache seizure dizziness loss and smell and taste are neurologic symptoms so cognitive function we may see that certainly and seriously cove in nineteen patients who have been in and I see you that's to be expected but we'll we'll hope that those things return back to normal okay next question we've been talking a lot about pregnancy this one about new moms is it safe to vaccinate babies or give booster MMR shots without testing them for cove in nineteen any expected complications like fever or anything else a couple of things with this because it's really important for the American academy of pediatrics talk about the risks of delaying infant immunizations in the setting of the covert nineteen pandemic number one fever is a possibly a good reaction of our body to anything whether it's a vaccination for exposure to something like Kobe right now pediatricians offices are not testing babies for cove it before they administer routine I mean ations but that may change in the future and we have to remember those immunizations are important so any concerns really want the parents to talk to the pediatrician all right great advice as always Dr Jan thank you and if you have questions for Dr Ashton you can submit them on her Instagram at Dr J. Ashton will masks and face coverings have become such a familiar sight around the country in this corona virus pandemic with a number of states now requiring them during visits to essential businesses and on public transportation but the sight of them can be scary especially for children A. B. C.'s Ariel Russia has more on what you can do to help lessen their anxiety Hey there any as you know kids can ask some pretty tough questions and this can actually be scary for them as you mention when they see people out there wearing masks they see their parents wearing masks but experts say there are ways to help them adapt to this new normal and some of them are not only just educational but they can even be fine faking street shuttered businesses empty playgrounds the images of this covert nineteen pandemic are hard for even adults to process but for kids like four year old alley and five year old Adriana Alfano seeing people wearing masks is perhaps the most jarring it they just I was really strange a new normal forcing families like the L. fan I was to have some tough conversations it does open up both a big can of worms and a lot of different questions public face covering now recommended by the CDC for adults and children ages two and up how do you think the imagery of people wearing masks can affect kids well initially when kids see someone wearing a mask depending on what they associate it with before it could bring up some beer new dad and entrepreneur Trevor George and his wife Morgan wanted to help ease that anxiety we believe that in order to solve this everyone has to do their part Michigan based teacher company struggling when the pandemic hit economy it had the two created mass club issues like it has to be a way you can help and work with your branch at the same time retiring more than fifty percent of their furloughed employees or adults with a lot of characters like hello Kitty Wonder Woman Batman and Superman we have an eight month old and when my wife and I put on our Batman or Wonder Woman masks he reaches for the colors that has a familiar logo can help your child more east club a passion project with added and for every mass that's purchased we donate a medical grade version two first responders in partnership with the first responders children's need and creating a bright spot family having some fun some levity and then mixing them with information Trevor says that they have donated nearly one hundred thousand masks already any clearly this idea of wearing a branded logo mask and also doing some good while you're in the process of that is really resonate yeah it's a win win I was even saying I know kids it's scary to them it's scary to me sometimes when you see people because it is jarring seeing circle in masks all of a sudden what tools can parents use when they talk about this with their children well doctor Taylor says it's important to impress upon your kids that they're taking care of themselves they're taking care of others this is a safety precaution just like wearing a helmet when you ride a bike or buckling your seat belt when you're in the car and she also says that it's important to have these honest conversations with your kids just be up front with them lead by example when you're comfortable wearing your own mask children see that and they're more at ease as well makes sense and kids are certainly resilient aerial thank you so much for bringing us this we appreciate it for gonna turn out to Dr Jen Ashton for some thoughts on this for some perspective here I mean we have to remember it was just recently that the CDC made a major change of revising their guidelines recommending face coverings for the general public not to protect the person wearing the mask but to protect others so as the saying we're so used to hearing here in New York City it's not about me it's about a week but here's the interesting thing from a medical and scientific standpoint remember that the data on face coverings or masks protecting you was done in a lab right that's why we say in a hospital setting we put masks on sick people with a different kind of mask on health care workers but there's a big difference between scientific research done in a lab setting and those done in a real life setting so we're seeing one of major Boston Medical Center has dropped the rate of its staff cases of covert nineteen dramatically once they instituted a policy where everyone staff patients and visitors started wearing masks so we'll see how it plays out in our country Dr Ashton thank you and when we come back the army of volunteers in one city working hard to help frontline heroes shine these special continues after this about half of all men will experience ET or PT fact both E. 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Coronavirus cases have more than doubled in Louisiana since last Wednesday
"In Louisiana cobit nineteen cases have more than doubled since last Wednesday Dr Angela Cornelius is serving in New Orleans part of a seven member volunteer team from Shreveport other people dying in our units that their family can't be here with them and so that's it's just a difficult difficult it's very difficult the virus claimed the lives
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Is It Safe to Go to the Grocery Store Amid Coronavirus?
"And one of the few places that you can go during the pandemic is the grocery store but just how safe is it Columbia University infectious disease expert Dr Angela rest mucin says the fewer the trips the better people should consider going to the grocery store a little less than they normally do only as often as they need to in my household we've tried to minimize our grocery store trips to once a week if last season's pick a time when you think the store will be less crowded once you're there wipe down your cart bring hand sanitizer trying to touch too many items but she says it's especially important to avoid interaction with other people in the aisles at the grocery store and go through self checkout to avoid interaction with cashiers if at all
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Is Ibuprofen Really Risky for Coronavirus Patients?
"Is it risky to take ibuprofen if you have symptoms of covert nineteen the French health ministry says yes over the weekend it warned doctors not to give ibuprofen and other nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs to patients with the disease but experts on the frontlines of this pandemic say there is no reason for alarm NPR's Maria Godoy reports the concern over IB Provan started with a brief letter published in the medical journal the lancet last week the authors hypothesize that medication such as ibuprofen and other and states could raise a person's risk of developing a severe case of code nineteen the theory was that these drugs increase levels of an enzyme that would make it easier for the virus to infect cells but leading global health officials say there's no evidence is actually the case you know sometimes discussions off the cuff turning to letters turning to social media turned into a lot of discussion and you have no idea what kinds of what I tax Dr Anthony Fauci head of the National Institute of allergy and infectious disease bottom line is I have not seen any certain data indicate there's a problem well it's a true that there's not a problem the world health organisation agrees it issued a statement on Twitter saying it's been in touch with doctors treating coronavirus patients and hasn't heard of any negative side effects from ibuprofen beyond those already known for instance patients with kidney problems shouldn't take ibuprofen because it can cause kidney damage when used long term in high doses Dr Angela Rogers pulmonary and critical care physician at Stanford University says that's one reason why hospitals routinely avoid ibuprofen for patients sick enough to be hospitalized with any sort of infection when patients are very ill with fevers and hospitalized they're at risk for kidney injury and so Tyler all really is the go to one that we use Tylenol doesn't work the same way as and states and it's thought to affect the part of the brain that regulates temperature the Tylenol is it risk free either it can damage the liver in high doses so if you have mild symptoms of covered nineteen and want to treat them at home if people are you know having a liver disease either and and could make them feel a little bit more security start tiling offers that might be a reasonable way to do it but if you take ibuprofen or other in states for other medical reasons Roger says talk to your doctor if you're worried but for now there's no reason to stop taking them Maria could away
The Keto Answers Podcast
A Top Keto Researcher Shares Her Findings
"I think you'd be on the podcast today. Anger Anthony Yes. Yes you are Maybe you say give people information just a little bit of your background currently what you do I'm a research associate at the University in South Florida and the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology I worked with Dr Dominic Douglas. You know we have a lab here where we we study metabolism and how it pertains to the development and potential therapeutic interventions for a variety of diseases. primary focus for me would be cancer Um so he's been cancer. Metabolism things like Akita Genetic Diet or other non talk ways the target metabolism could be a useful advent to standard of Care Therapy for cancer better level so looked at eight non toxic metabolic targeted therapies or other these jazz seizure disorders and also near genetic disorders including some rare disorders like Kabuki Syndrome which is something that we've recently started studying so we have a wide array of interest kind of all related to how we can optimized metabolism to prevent and treat the gotta before we dive in deeper and I think what you do on a day-to-day basis just curious as far as your background and what got you interested in this field in the first place sure so I was always interested in. I was even a a young on girl. I was very much like a tomboy. I would always be playing outside like you know catch lizards grasshoppers than I was just so interested in those dot dot kind of so biology plus always really interested in me to the point where I never really thought about doing anything else. I probably from the time that I knew being scientists was an option. I was decidedly going to be a scientist and I always really loved the idea of contributing something new to be in a wealth of knowledge that was out there so just reading scientific textbooks and thinking about how literally each each launch of their represents an advise some fine history that had an interesting question or idea and tested dot hypothesis and came up with something new that had never been known before and that really drew me the being though after to High School I went to college with that in mind I studied biochemistry molecular biology at Hendrix College which is a small college in Arkansas which is where I grew up had a really great experience there where the the call all just very intent on experiential learning and so I was actually able to work in a neuro science research lab for three years at Undergrad and able to do really really interesting research and actually present at them national conferences even while I was an Undergrad which kind of furthered heard my you know solidified my interest in going on to graduate school and being scientists so then I decided to do my PhD after Undergrad and I came down to University of South Florida for or a PhD program in Biomedical Sciences and started looking around four labs to join though when you start a PhD program you have to identify who's GonNa be your nature Professor and the project that you're going to work work are gone for your dissertation project and that's what I'm doctor you know he was a new faculty member here. USF This is about ten years ago or so and he was doing a load of work at that time for the Navy looking at mitigation negation strategies to combat a unique type of seizure that manifest when you breathe high oxygen concentrations at depth so such a navy diver might experience and that led him down the rabbit hole to booking at he does this which of course the Ketogenic Diet had been used clinically for a hundred years actually to treat epilepsy mets refractory to education and so he was doing work in that field and at the time has kind of stumbled across this idea about a ton of research on at the time by the thought that maybe toes Hud's them properties that could be anticancer and that it was at the time I was looking for a research lab and I met Dr Casino and you described these ideas to me and it just sounded really fascinating in part because it seems so novel. It's funny now when I think about at that time the idea of diet impacting something as serious as cancer. It seemed surprising to me because now it seems so obvious that something so impactful the Diet would have major impacts on something like cancer but at the time it was very enterprising and I I'd had some personal experience with with cancer and and my father had had brain tumors starting when he was very young he had them even had them irradiated was pretty pretty intense radiation therapy which saved his life allowed him to live past you know his back speculation into his you know into relatively old age and and allowed me to to come around so that radiation saved his life but 'cause very long lasting negative effects and that he had cognitive physical decline over time and you know this was at a time we're a lot better now at using targeted radiation to eliminate much of those off target effects but at the time it was kind of more intense whole brain irradiation type therapy and I think I was just very intrigued by this idea that maybe there's here's the non toxic ways that we can before standard of care therapies so that we can protect our healthy tissue while putting more stress on the tumor and I I love that idea about potentially using diet do that and and I think that that really kind of caught my cut my eye. I and I decided to join Donovan and start up the Kantha research program and his love so now still split your serve research focuses. This is in in everybody all in on this sort of like metabolic therapies or or how do you split up. Yeah I would say our whole lab is it's pretty dynamic and their interest we kind of have people have more specific areas adventures expertise I I really enjoy and tend to focus on the cancer work in our lab dominate the classically trained neuroscientists and daas more his wheelhouse but we all kind of are familiar with the whole territory and contribute in other ways. I think that is also really important part to this kind kind of science as being multidisciplinary because we understand and learn a lot from each other though we're lucky about the epilepsy field has a very long history three of studying diet and metabolism and not do these days and there's a lot that we can learn from each other those are those and cancer biology for example or people studying nearer nearer developmental disorders can look at things like epilepsy and learn from I'm definitely we have people who kind of tend to focus on certain things were all also contributing to most of the projects that come out of the lab okay. How many resources do you guys have the right. Now we have about Devon fulltime not fall and then we have a number of students who come in and we'll volunteer or work as a student researcher for some period of time here and there so I would say I'm sure on yours and the answer is not enough of course always okay okay so one of the things you mentioned before was that you sort of have this transition in how you're thinking about cancer therapies and in that you know how could nutrition affect any of this nine eleven obviously. How can it not so? What did you learn that brought you from one mindset to the other. I think just the learning how impactful nutrition is on everything that happens in our bodies. I mean it is I would say one of the main them Eli but but our body is receiving it it tell their internal system a lot about the outside world.
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