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"Is a Bloomberg business flash. Thank you so much, Charlie pellet. Well, new COVID boosters are coming. Who's going to take them? We just talked about that. And it's a subject of a Bloomberg opinion columnist today, which makes you wonder, if any of this is going to change now that The White House is said to be considering making second booster shots widely available for all adults, will people step up and take them to. Well, that's the question. Is it too late to have these formulations boosters that don't necessarily tackle the omicron variant? That's my big question for doctor David dowdy infectious disease epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of health, public health that has supported by Michael R Bloomberg founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg philanthropies. Doctor dowdy, good to have you with us. That's exactly where I want to start. Are these boosters worth it for people under the age of 50 given that the BA four and BA 5 sub variants are not necessarily targeted in these current iterations? Yeah, great. Thanks, Tim. Thanks for having me. I would say on balance, the benefits of vaccination do outweigh the risks, including of the second boosters, but even a high, high priority. I think the reason that you're saying, I think it's hard to say that's true. It's hard to say what's true. It's hard to say that this should be our utmost priority. Interesting. Yeah, a couple of things going on. First of all, most of the hospitalizations we're seeing are in older adults. And so we're talking about people who already eligible for that second booster. And then secondly, as you're saying, VA four be a fiber now, the dominant sub variant while our vaccinations do provide good protection against serious disease. They don't really protect against infection against these sub variants while at all. So I'm not sure exactly what we're hoping to get out of another booster wave in advance of hopefully by valent vaccines will be coming down that will target piece of variance. I look no further than across the table to Carol who has recovered from her second bout of COVID in just a couple of months and I imagine Carol that in a month. BA four or in one month, that's right. And it was BA four BA 5 in your boosted. I'm boosting the double bags and double boosted. Yeah, I'm looking for guidance. I'm thinking a lot Tim and I, doctor daddy, think a lot about the fall when it starts to cool off, we're back inside again. Nobody wants to wear masks anymore. Like, what is it that you think we're going to really need to protect us from this next wave? Whatever that might be. Yeah, well, I mean, I think that honestly we are already in the middle of a wave. Best estimates of how much transmission is going on right now is that it's higher than it's ever been before except for this past winter. So it's not like we really can go a whole lot higher this coming fall and winter. And again, as just discussed, we are hoping to have newer vaccines coming out in the coming months. So I'm not sure that things are going to get much worse over the cautiously. Better. What about when it comes to kids? We have a kid under the age of 5, who is not yet vaccinated. He was set to get vaccinated, but then he got COVID, so the doctor said, hold off on getting him vaccinated. Do I want to wait to see if he can get a shot that is targeted specifically to these variants or given the way that we see development for these vaccines, is that going to just take too long? Yeah. Well, I mean, again, I think I want to make sure that nothing in this discussion comes off as saying vaccines don't work. All these vaccines do work and for people who are eligible for these vaccines, I would recommend getting the recommended series. But it's also hard to know, especially for young kids, how quickly some of these newer formulations are going to become available. And where we're going to be in the pandemic, 6 or 12 months from now. I mean, we may be talking about BA ten or 11 by that time. Well, that's what I want. How do you think about the variants and kind of where they're going? We have a great story from business week by O'Reilly Griffin and we talked about it and it's going to be in our weekend show and it's about this startup that is Tapping AI to predict the COVID variants and try and get ahead of where these variants are going and then hopefully have the right treatments that we need. So that there isn't this lag. How do you think about variants and how they mutate? Well, I mean, I think that mutation is what viruses do. And we know that this is going to happen. And just because viruses mutate doesn't mean that they are forever getting worse and worse and more and more dangerous. We can always compare the current variant to the one before and say that the current variant has an advantage because it's got something new that our immune system hasn't seen before. It doesn't mean that the current variant is worse or scarier. It just means that it's found a way to evade our current immune system. But this is what we expect. And I think we should be expecting for months and years to come. We're going to be seeing new variants in new sub variants, but if we're not seeing deaths go up before 19 hospitalizations go up, it's not something that we need to be concerning ourselves about. Doctor dowdy just got about 30, 40 seconds here. So Tim, as I say, you've got a bullet on you've got a bullseye on your back because Tim has not had COVID yet. Knock on wood. I went 26 months, didn't have it, or I don't know, I might have had it back in February 2020, who knows at that point. But I've just had a back to back. Do I have a higher immunity or is Tim like some super immunity? And again, just got about 30 seconds. Both can be true, Carol. Yeah. You probably do have higher immunity. I guess is that Tim, it is coming for you at some point. I just have just had my first case last week. So it happens to the best of us. All right. The trick to getting to avoiding COVID is not to plan a vacation. If you plan a vacation, then you're gonna get it, so. Well said, well said, doctor daddy, thank you so much. Covered a lot of ground and stuff we were hoping to get to. Doctor David dowdy, infectious disease, epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health, supported by Michael R Bloomberg the school, founder, of course, Bloomberg, LP and Bloomberg, philanthropies, Carol master Tim stank. I've got super immunity, Tim. It's coming
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"Health and he told us if you are vaccinated the U.S. case count numbers are certainly improving If you are vaccinated and boosted the great majority of people have mild disease or asymptomatic disease and yesterday despite more than 52,000 new infections we know that's an undercount We had fewer than 360 deaths so in the United States So deaths are down And that doctor byer speaking with our Tom Keane with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health which is supported by Michael R Bloomberg founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg philanthropies Mixed day for the vaccine names Pfizer for example up 1.4% have Strowman partner BioNTech down 1.2% AstraZeneca's ADR is up 8 tenths of 1% Moderna lower now by 6 tenths of 1% J&J Johnson & Johnson up by 9 tenths of 1% Recapping Apple and Amazon after the close of trading Facebook shares surging 18.6% S&P up now by two and a half percent I'm Charlie palette that is a Bloomberg business flash All right Charlie thank you so much So among our most read stories on the Bloomberg today is one about how Elon Musk risks a Twitter exodus of black users who are really worried about abuse and our reporter on that Chelsea butler equality reporter for Bloomberg news she joins us right now on the phone from New York City Kelsey great to have you on the program You and our colleague Dina bass writing about black Twitter hashtag black Twitter And for people who aren't familiar with it how is it defined based on the experts You spoke to for the story Sure So black Twitter definitely not a monolith but researchers have defined it as a network of communicators that basically are highlighting or signal boosting issues that are important to black users on the app And that includes really big influencers that have come up with really important hashtags that we all know about Black Lives Matter To comedians or people that are using the app to communicate with each other about pop culture stuff So Kelsey give us some perspective in terms of the demographics on Twitter I don't know that we necessarily talk about this a lot but how many of Twitter users are black Because I do wonder there's lots of reasons to be concerned And I do want you to get into why they are worried about why they might be leaving But how much exposure would that potentially cost Twitter Right so some of the research that I dug up from pew said that there's about 11% of Twitter users are black but the interesting part about it is that a lot of those users are using that really high rates or super engaged and kind of use it at higher levels than white users And Jack Dorsey a former Twitter CEO has talked about black Twitter and it being such a powerful force People that I talk to basically said Twitter wouldn't exist without black There's a lot of culture and engagement that has been built up by a coalition of broad black speakers So Kelsey now I want to get to the potential issues here the problems here And it really comes down to I think for based on based on the report or based on your reporting the potential for abuse And abuse to flourish In a way that I mean I think anyone who uses Twitter at this point and understands the abuse on that can happen on social platforms But talk to us about what you found because the numbers are pretty astounding Yeah the numbers shocked me as well There are some research that shows that in an analysis of millions of tweets that one in ten tweets mentioning black women was abusive and problematic that compares with one in 15 for white women about half of the accounts that sent misogynistic abuse to high profile women went on to reoffend and a lot of those comments are the new comments include words that I won't even say on the program So that certainly is a piece of it and with Elon Musk talking about his vision for Twitter which includes really limiting deletion or banning accounts that is concerning to a lot of people And to be sure not everyone feels this way some people really don't care And they say they plan to say no matter what but black users that I've talked to with large platforms they're like well if things get really bad we might leave and it might be begrudgingly but no one wants to open themselves up necessarily to flood of abuse Well I don't even know this week that must criticism of a content decision made by Twitter's legal team was followed by a wave of abusive tweets directed against the company's top lawyer who turns out she is a woman of color So we've seen some stuff just as of late I guess 30 seconds here Kelsey we don't know exactly what this company will be under Elon Musk and that's part of the problem In terms of policing content just quickly Exactly So one of the people that I talk to April range she started the Oscars the white hashtag which has had a big impact on the entertainment industry and she says she's waiting to see kind of what happens when things are official And we'll be waiting to see too That's the hard part There's just so many questions Yeah really important story Kelsey Thank you so much for.
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"4 million cases Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health prof Andrew pecos says this spread of omicron variant could be the tipping point of the pandemic The issue of why this virus seems to be so much more transmissible Certainly it has mutations that can invade some of the immune responses that vaccines give you but it really does seem like this virus is spreading better than other variants for other reasons And right now we don't really understand what that is but certainly it seems like people are getting infected and unconditioned that previously were highly unlikely to mediate infection And that's fueling this massive surge of cases Transmission is something that's really difficult to study in a laboratory but it really is one of the things that all Macron is doing fantastically better than any previous variant we've seen Is there a row or a zeta after a crime I mean I frankly like the geography designations that we used to do in the old days But do you just assume there's another variant after this one They're absolutely will be This virus has already shown the ability to evolve change and respond to its new host humans And it's now showing the ability to try to evade some of the immune responses that are coming down the line I do firmly feel we're on a path to make this disease caused by this virus much more mild much more contained because we will have population immunity We will have vaccines that are effectively knocking down severe disease and will eventually have antivirals that are distributed to help limit that So there are ways that we can control this disease but this virus will be around for a long time and it's looking more.
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"Going to send the same number of people into the hospital So we really have to balance the potential mild nature of the infection with the total number of cases that are coming through So it's good that we're planning right now and I think we should be able to be a better prepared for this Although the holiday season is a really tough one to make any predictions about based on travel and cases and people who are working and those kind of things I would mind though if you could make some predictions about how things could go around the holidays we do have a number of people that are still planning to travel Those numbers really haven't gone down in terms of how many people are still planning to see their families and loved ones during the holidays Do you think we can do that safely This is where testing really becomes a critical thing And I think this surge in all Macron cases and in the surge and looking for tests has shown one weakness in our response right now I know from talking to people personally the ability to get a test particularly a PCR test which is oftentimes what people really want when they're traveling It's very very difficult and in particular to get in that timely manner So I think people should be taking advantage of testing when possible But I realize that that's a difficult thing to get these days because of the surgeon in demand for those things Only about 30 seconds left here doctor but as you know a lot of businesses are changing their plans shutting their doors rethinking return to office with home across out there Given what we're seeing with the risk of hospitalization should we be going back to voluntary restrictions like that I think for this initial surge with omicron it's certainly good to have that in certain situations We want to limit the number of cases And anything that's not completely necessary should be thought of as being taken off the table in terms of potential ways to limit the number of cases So things are looking a little bit more positive for all Macron than they did for instance for delta or for alpha but it's still think that we should be cautious at this point in time As always thank you for your insights and hope it's a safe holiday for you as well Andy peckish Professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health which is supported.
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"With the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health which is supported by Michael R Bloomberg founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg philanthropies Checking those vaccine stocks Pfizer up now by 3% It's German partner BioNTech its ADRs down 2.1% AstraZeneca's ADRs down .8% Madonna down now by 3.4% Johnson & Johnson down one and a half percent Lots of earnings after the bell today including NetApp Hewlett Packard Enterprise global foundries boxing Salesforce.com and Z scalar I'm Charlie pellet that is a Bloomberg business flash All right Charlie thank you so much Well a lot going on when it comes to COVID The EU has recorded at least 44 confirmed cases of the omicron variant in 11 countries does say that all the people infected are asymptomatic showing only mild symptoms Oxford saying there's no evidence that the new variant defeats the vaccine It developed with AstraZeneca Moderna predicting vaccines will struggle while the variant while the World Health Organization warned that the variant could feel a fresh surge in infections with severe consequences Oh this happening Carol while the U.S. CDC is considering a tightening travel restrictions and rules Germany taking a step closer toward making vaccines compulsory So we slew of news happening around the world as a result of this variant Feel like we've been here before All right so let's see what John Lewin has to say He's our health team editor at Bloomberg news on the phone from Boston John Lot going on trying to understand it's confusing financial markets It's confusing We mere mortals I don't know How do you today isn't it It's only Tuesday It's only two seconds I keep telling myself that because it feels much late in the week There's so much there's a great deal of confusing news going on out here It's difficult to make sense of And I think a lot of it has to do with say governments trying to be extremely cautious and to drug makers as well And yet I think that there is a certain amount of confidence about the effectiveness of vaccines and remains to be seen by the effectiveness of drugs as well So it's difficult to put this in all of it in context because there is news coming in from so many different directions But so far what the drug makers are saying at least most of them is that they think that the vaccines will be at least somewhat effective Against dolma crime What does somewhat mean though And in the context of I don't think we really know but the vaccine so far has been 96% effective So that's a really effective vaccine You think about it That's much more effective than the flu vaccine right Flu vaccine sometimes they tend to go up between 30 and 50% effective in a given year So there's still they seem very effective at keeping people out of the hospital We don't know I think the Moderna comments earlier may have grown a bit of a scare into people because they said they thought it would be less effective than we would neither new vaccine But that's not what the other drug makers are saying And then the other thing that countervailing that is that in the places where on the current cases have been seen they seem to be less severe And this is news that come out of both the EU and South Africa both of which have excellent surveillance and excellent healthcare systems Now does that mean that these are breakthrough cases in people who have already been vaccinated and so that's why they weren't severe or does it actually mean that it's a less severe virus It's very difficult to say or was it just the population that we've seen and was it younger people children people who usually don't develop Severe cases So there's a lot of data I mean it's not to say we'll never find the answer to these questions I think we will at some point But what have we known about omron I think it ended the vocabulary about 5 days ago right So there's still a lot to find out about this And the other thing to remember is here in the U.S. we still haven't seen a we will There's no doubt that we will But is that John because we don't do the same kind of sequencing that other countries do We did a story yesterday in which we sort of laid out some of the issues around the surveillance system here in the U.S. and we do a lot of sequencing There's no question we do a lot But the intensity of it the percentage of cases that are tested in sequences sequenced is lower than say some countries like the UK for example which is the star They are the world leader in this And which we probably ought to be trying to catch up to And actually South Africa is a very good job with this stuff as well South Africa huge health problems that have to keep an eye on stuff like HIV So they're very good with sequence in there And that's there's every reason that that's why they found there is because they're actually keeping such close eye issues like this So you have these things going on And We have to go Yeah I'm so sorry but I know we'll be talking to you again because it does feel like every day we're trying to make some sense out of especially in the last couple of days John laraman thank you so much Health team editor Bloomberg news on the phone from Boston Well it's.
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"And we are seeing several Asian nations changing their trouble plan agendas it backs to has all the global news edge All right thank you very much Julia you're right Japan is efficient It will close its borders to new foreign arrivals from today and to have its own citizens isolate on arrival from countries where oma cron is detected The entry band does not apply to foreigners already residing in the country Hong Kong has expanded its travel ban to Angola Ethiopia Nigeria and zombie from today also tightening travel restrictions for visitors from Belgium and Germany and effective Thursday and non Hong Kong residents have stayed in these countries will have the last 21 days will not be allowed to enter Hong Kong Australia postponing plans to relax border restrictions this by at least two weeks This New South Wales reporting over the weekend that two travelers from South Africa to Sydney were infected by omicron asymptomatic another two yesterday So the delay until December 15th to give authorities they say time to gather more information to better understand the variant In the U.S. president Joe Biden this variant is a cause for concern not a cause for panic and says travel bans are not punishment but by time The reason for their media travel ban is there were a significant number of cases on like any other country to other few around South Africa in the world We needed time to give people an opportunity to say get that vaccination now before it has a move around the world That is encouraging all Americans to wear masks indoors again As for vaccination doctor adalja at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg health says mRNA vaccines at this point are affected If people don't want to take the vaccine if people actively shun this great piece of technology that approves their lives it's going to be very difficult Indeed it's not surprising to me that this variant was discovered in a place where vaccination rates are 25% And that is a case of the epicenter in South Africa The CEO of Pfizer Albert bourla on Bloomberg says a very it can be contained We have been preparing for a moment like that for months right now And I feel comfortable that the playbook will work So what is the playbook Why did this understand more about this virus The second of course we're big Protect And he says if the vaccines need to be tweaked can be done in 100 days or less The reports so far are that oma karon is apparently far more transmissible but symptoms appear to be mild so far the fear without vaccinations more people who are infected allow the virus to mutate In San Francisco I met Baxter this is Bloomberg our brain All right thank you very much The time is 8 minutes past the hour Let's get to our guest It's Thomas Hayes chairman of great hill capital with this for a great discussion So Thomas before this coronavirus new variant on the hit inflation was really the sort of front burner issue for investors Let's talk a little bit about inflation This omicron do you think it makes inflation worse Because of additional bottlenecks in supply chains or better because business was slow and retailers will have to cut prices to generate business Well you don't want business to slow Brian That would be a big problem if you started to see factory shutdowns in Vietnam and the reemergence of the supply chain bottlenecks that are now started to get work through You have the two components You have the supply chain that we're hopeful is temporary and we're hopeful that this will be another variant that is just another blip that will power through But then you have wages which were happening before omicron and that are sticky So we are going to have above trend inflation But that's not necessarily a bad thing I do think these supply chain bottlenecks and omicron will work through that over the next three to 6 to 9 months That part will stop going up but wages are going to remain elevated and give us above trend inflation for some time And that's apparent in 5 year break evens The very nature of a pandemic is that the virus mutates and we see new variants Why has there been such a reaction to this You know that's a great question Juliet we came into the bad news on Friday morning here in the U.S. The market was a little bit overbought a little bit frothy but you also saw among retail investors cash holdings fell to 46% of margin balances That was the lowest reading back to 1997 So I think what you saw on Friday is a ton of retail what they call stop loss orders were taken out during the shortened trading session and the vix hit 28 which over the past 6 months has been the level where the market bottomed and bounced multiple times So I think it was just a positioning and a surprise news and a lot of professionals were not at their desks on Friday Yeah That might be true I'd like to say you're right but I think policymakers politicians are overreacting Well I don't know if they're overreacting They are reacting very strongly just like the markets reacted very strongly So it's not just a market story Let's hope that we know so much more in a week or two that we can make the right policy Bloomberg economics is actually predicting a doubling of the pace of tapering for the fed at the December meeting even with the omicron variant I'm curious and that could allow for rights to go up as soon as March I'm curious whether you think that's urgent and needed Well we have Thomas Hayes with us but we might have lost him for a moment there Let's see if we can get.
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"Of this new variant have cropped up in locations from Australia to the UK and Canada leading economists to reassess their outlooks for the global recovery doctor Joshua sharfstein as vice dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health It's going to be a little bit of a you know buckle your seatbelts moment because we're going to see all kinds of individual stories before the picture It's really emerges I based on the studies that have been launched I would expect two to three weeks for a much more clear picture but I wouldn't panic over anyone had I Doctor sharpstein with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health which is supported by Michael R Bloomberg founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg philanthropies checking some of those vaccine names Pfizer down right now by 2.1% its German partner BioNTech up by four and a half percent those of the ADRs AstraZeneca's ADRs down 1.8% madrona out of Cambridge up 11.3% and Johnson & Johnson up now by 5 tenths of 1% Briefly a U.S. federal labor official has ordered a new election that an Amazon warehouse in Alabama Amazon shares their up now by 2.1% and the slump continues for chipotle Mexican grill now lower for the tenth straight day extending the longest losing streak since the company went public in 2006 I'm Charlie Pablo that is a Bloomberg business flash Thank you so much for that update Charlie pellet This is Bloomberg Okay so the translation is return return return right Yeah Well time Thank you Come to your suspension did you take The study abroad actually Excellent Yes I'll never go there You've identified the title.
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"New rules for travelers to the U.S. at Baxter has all the latest in San Francisco edge Yeah and this is a new way for sure Juliet a proof of full vaccination in addition to a recent negative test The new rules take effect November 8th represent the biggest policy shift since the starting of the pandemic Basically brings the U.S. and lie now with the EU And New York health officials say COVID-19 is becoming endemic meaning it seems to be more chronic problem now than a surge of emergencies They're not there yet but on the way of trends continue Moderna says that it's COVID vaccine is shown a strong immune response in younger children doctor Anna Durbin at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of medicine says very very good news The data from the clinical trials look really really good Mostly because as I said we're using a smaller dose in the kids are tolerating it really well Doctor Durbin says all research into long-term side effects of the vaccines looks very good And Moderna will submit its findings to the regulators And on that line a new study published in the nature medicine journal led by an Oxford research team says that COVID is more likely The infection If you are not vaccinated you get infected more likely to cause rare neurological conditions than people who have received the vaccines Japan LDP projected to win the single party majority This is an asahi survey to this point China is urging the U.S. to remove all sanctions against Afghanistan Xinhua report And China's president Xi Jinping has taken a veiled swipe at the U.S. in a speech marking Beijing's 50th anniversary as a UN member saying China's always pursued an independent foreign policy of peace upheld justice and resolutely opposed to power politics Senator Joe Manchin says Democrats should be able to reach a deal this week on a framework for the Biden economic agenda and Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer says he feels the deal will be done this week Meanwhile president Joe Biden and New Jersey today lobbying the deal.
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"Who is Manning the global news desk in San Francisco head All right thank you very much Stephen the Biden administration has issued new rules for travelers to the U.S. proof of full vaccination in addition to a recent negative test New rules take effect November 8th and represent the biggest policy shift since the starting of the pandemic New York health officials say COVID-19 is becoming endemic meaning it seems to be more of a chronic problem than a surge of emergencies Not year that not there yet but on the way if trends continue Moderna says that it's COVID vaccine has shown a strong immune response in younger children Doctor Anna Durbin at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg medical center says some good news The data from the clinical trials look really really good Mostly because as I said we're using a smaller dose in the kids are tolerating it really well Doctor Durbin also says all research into long-term side effects for all of us are good Moderna will submit its findings to regulators And on that line a new study published in nature medicine journal led by an Oxford research team says that COVID the disease itself if you contract it is more likely to cause rare neurological conditions than the vaccine So that bit had been a concern of the anti vaxxers China's president Xi Jinping has taken a veiled swipe at the U.S. in a speech marking Beijing's 50th anniversary at the UN Quote China has always pursued an independent foreign policy of peace appell justice and resolutely opposed power politics Senator Joe Manchin says Democrats should be able to reach a deal this week on a framework for the Biden economic agenda and Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer says he feels the deal will be done this week as well Meanwhile president Joe Biden New Jersey today lobbying for a deal This is going to be good union jobs prevailing ways You can raise a family on jobs that can't be outsourced We're going to make the largest investment in public transportation in the history of America replacing transit vehicles that are passed there to useful life The Biden says the climate part will also supply jobs Hong Kong court has convicted a second person under the national security law Faces as many as 7 years for chanting slogans of protest rallies Ma is known locally as Captain America two He sometimes dressed up as a marvel character at the protest and the human rights group Amnesty saying that Hong Kong's national security law makes it too dangerous for its staff to work in the city and it's closing its doors This is an Australia broadcasting report and Facebook is growing more and more concerned about its lack of Friends in low demographic demographic places Younger people and Bloomberg's Tom Giles says that has some investors very concerned It's a problem that they've recognized that they see the declines There's a lot of internal alarm and anguish over it but have they been as forthcoming with investors as they should have about those declines And that's something that Francis would say the answer is no And the whistleblower says Facebook I inflated those numbers to try to gain profit And Blue Origin and Sierra space say they plan to build a commercial space station in low earth orbit before the end of the decade it will be called orbital reef and designed to operate as a mixed use business park in space And Steven Doug I see you raising your hands You're up to go right You want to spend some time on the space station I can't even leave Hong Kong Okay all right You're afraid of the question but that's fine That's good I'll go anywhere right now Thanks a lot Sorry buddy It's time for sports Let's get to that world.
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"Doctor David dowdy is an epidemiologist of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health and on Bloomberg TV and radio this morning He was asked about those employer vaccine mandates I do think that we can get to a point where we're not having the same huge waves of sickness and death And I think that we might be there but I don't want to say that we are there I think we still need to see where things go over the next few months If we make it through the winter without another wave then we're probably doing pretty well Doctor dowdy of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health which is supported by Michael R Bloomberg founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg philanthropies Mixed back for a lot of the vaccine stocks that we track on a regular basis Pfizer for example little change lower by one tenth of 1% its German partner BioNTech it shares up 6% right now Those are the ADRs ADRs of AstraZeneca 8 tenths of 1% Madonna shares their up by 2% J&J Johnson & Johnson down four tenths of 1% Again recapping equities are trading mixed choppy session S&P at a record of 8 now up two tents I'm Charlie peloton that is a Bloomberg business flash Thank you so much Charlie pellet This is Bloomberg It's one of the great rock groups Is it Jersey No That is far away from Jersey as you can get LA Europe Keep going Asia Keep going Australia Yeah you're getting there Who is that I know the sound Y'all were bopping along like you knew I know I know Well is it a one hit wonder From the U.S. perspective it is but you know I think the band did not get its due The band I don't know This lead singer went on to become a government minister In Australia Now that is just And then went back to reunite with a band It could happen in the U.S. too Carol It could happen So who do we got Midnight oil Oh I would have got that Okay Nice job In the lead singer Peter Garrett yeah he's like everyone knows the lyrics to that song It's such a classic Yeah absolutely It's got oil in the title and that was enough today to make it my pick for the charts Nice You know at least the band has oil in its name Very nice day Close enough Anyway because the chart looks to the left specifically it's something that rich Bernstein's from Richard Bernstein advisers you may remember him Used to be a Merrill right Yeah Investment strategies for years Then he went off to start his own firm Now he's got lest I check $4 billion under management Not shabby No Big on a lot of shall we say old economy type stocks these days And energy is pointing out that you can make the case that there's underinvestment in the oil business at the moment And the way he does is kind of an interesting gaze Maybe not the most stable one but it's enough to make the point is to take the weekly rig count that baker Hughes provides for oil and gas rigs and compare that with the price of crude in New York trading when you make that comparison you find out at least as of yesterday you were talking the number of rigs equal to my say yes to and the last week this is weekly number 5.4 was the ratio in terms of rigs to oil price And if you look back to 2010 and figure the average from there 12 times So last one A lot less rigs Yeah exactly Not so much investment Correct So if you're out there and you're drilling you know you potentially are in a positive situation That's the way he figures it anyway He made a comparison to the 2000s where numbers were even lower And in fact if you look at that decade energy the best performer among the 11 main industry groups in the S&P 500 Yeah Dave is there any nuance to this with efficiency from each rig or what a rig can actually bring on This is a pretty broad kind of indicator here broad brush you might say Just the way to get it's a way to get a sense of where people are throwing money at the industry or backing away And you know given the shift that we're seeing toward electric vehicles you can understand why perhaps the money would just not be there the way it has been This goes to me that pivot that we're seeing from old energy to new energy or old to alt And we're seeing less investment potentially going in We talked about the engine number one CEO what they've gotten to do from Exxon And these companies are going to have to make changes because investors want it and also policies requiring them to do it By the way the climate needs it Price of gas in Beverly Hills above 5 bucks a gallon Was it really Yeah Yeah.
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"Than we're at under a hundred a day which is totally possible You know I think with the vaccination and with the little bit of passage of time here you know but we really do have to keep pushing forward Doctor sharpstein of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health which is supported by Michael R Bloomberg founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg philanthropies among some of the vaccine names that we track Pfizer down four tenths of 1% It's German partner BioNTech up four and a half percent AstraZeneca down 1.7% Moderna it's shares up 3.4% J&J Johnson & Johnson down by 5 tenths of 1% So again recapping stocks are mixed S&P up 12 now up three tenths I'm Charlie Taliban is a Bloomberg business flash Thank you Charlie pellet This is Bloomberg What sounds like John Lennon Well you're sort of right Am I wrong Yeah Is it beetles Or it is It is because I be told It is a oh Is it George Yes it is Harrison Solo Doing a song called ding dong ding dong Right out the old ran the new Particularly appropriate based on today's chart All right so maybe let's get to it Tell us about the chart Sounds like a plan Anyway I was looking at a report the other day from the show more about the song Do they go too early I'm good Okay All right Let's talk about the research committee at Bank of America because you know the other day they were some making the case that you know it's time for some more capital spending here in the U.S. and they figure maybe the fact that prices are going up the way they are faster inflation may serve as a catalyst in giving companies and presumably governments as well The reason to try and modernize and one particular set of data that they cited is something that the commerce department puts out every year that refers to the average age of fixed assets and consumer durables So for fixed assets think about buildings that sort of thing consumer durables you know we're talking about cars and appliances and so on So you know you're talking to machinery and equipment as part of the mix as well And what's happened is for 20 years running That averages has gone up And in fact we're at about 22 and a half years 22.4 to be more precise based on the latest data which covered 2020 and just to put that in context you know before we started seeing record after record the past few years the high was 20.6 years back in 1940 we're about 9% above that peak now So you know we have people looking for change basically that's Bank of America's point I actually had a email subscriber Ask me well one industries does Bank of America think what benefit most And let me give you some that the site in this research investment committee report Banks restaurants and delivery services Oil and gas and industrial companies and hospitals of all that In any case if you want to hear more folks send me an email The explanation that goes with it and everything I do going forward the email address is Dee Wilson the Bloomberg net that's Dee Wilson at Bloomberg dot net So this whole idea that faster inflation may serve as a catalyst is just because of inflation so let's put the money to work and this is a valuable way of doing so What's the correlation Well of course are going up you know think of it from the corporate perspective especially Then they looking for all kinds of ways to cut costs in one is to get more efficient more modern equipment you know newer factories So.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"johns hopkins bloomberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Remain too high for a return to normal and it's time now for a pandemic update We're joined this morning by Gigi granville professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health professor Thanks for being with us Is there a risk of declaring a premature victory in this pandemic Yes absolutely We've seen this again and again over the course of the last couple of years where people think that we're done and then they take down the defenses and then we see a resurgence of the virus So we're still in a situation where there's a lot of transmission even if it's not in your particular area a lot of translation and other parts of the country and in the world The average daily infections have fallen to about what 95,000 so it seems like we're on the right trajectory Are we not Yes absolutely There's reasons for optimism for sure There are we have a plentiful supply of this country Thank goodness of vaccines that are safe and effective We have the option for boosters now or people who are older and for others who have other risks that they want to make sure that they get a booster for and this month we should see that hopefully in the next few weeks 5 11 should be authorized to get vaccine as well Yeah the Halloween for kids should the little ghouls and goblins trick or treat I think it might be a few days past Halloween unfortunately I'm waiting for this too So it's definitely a very anticipated meeting Yeah there is just a reiterate that it emergency use authorization being sought by Pfizer and BioNTech Is that correct That is correct There are a few meetings that are really important for the authorization of first children for boosters for people who have not had the Pfizer vaccine start And the results of a mix and match studies should be reviewed this week at this month as well So what happens if you have the Pfizer vaccine and you have a modern vaccine following it So we should have good results to be able to give people better information over the next few weeks And this would start at age 5 How do they come up with that age bracket I mean it's pretty arbitrary when it comes to the margins I have an 11 year old and 11 year old are not authorized to get the vaccine at this time by the 12 year old is there really much difference between an 11 year old and a 12 year old Probably not but the cutoff has to be somewhere and that's where it is Yeah How does the flu season complicate the scenario for the unvaccinated So I mean these are just because we are focused on COVID doesn't mean that there aren't other things that need to be concerned about flu is one para influenza RSV all these respiratory nasties and you want to make sure that you don't get any of them if you can avoid them but the flu it's something we can take the measures for So please get your flu shot and if you end up there's no reason you can't get both of these or multiple diseases at once So which would be terrible So do what you can to avoid this Professor always a pleasure we appreciate it Professors you should grant vote at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health Karen John thank you It is 5 52 on Wall Street It's time for the Bloomberg law report brought to you by American arbitration association international trade or business dispute resolved faster with the international center for dispute resolution the leader in alternative dispute resolution around the world Let's get to the legal stories where we're watching this morning from Bloomberg's Jeff.
KOMO
"johns hopkins bloomberg" Discussed on KOMO
"See friends and family here for Independence Day. Whatever gathering as you have, and the barbecues. No doubt there will be plenty of hugs. In fact, it's It's just so hard to get used to, and we had some friends over yesterday and They're like Mark. Where's the hug? Where's the kiss on the cheek? And it's been such a long time. Camels. Brian Calver intelligence, though, When you return to work this coming week, another form of greeting will likely be back. Put it there, friend. Just as I was worried it would never come back. It was sort of natural to start doing it again. So And I think it is. It's just one more sign that the end is truly insight. That's Baltimore County executive Johnny Oshinsky. Welcoming back the handshake, he tells wi PR. It's something he got really good at while running for office back in 1,877,000 appears today. There are those very eager to high five and shake hands. Once again, it's time to get back. So what? We were used to stop being afraid. There also appears to be just as many. Not so sure. I've always been more of like a waiver or Dafur when we're starting to talk about shaking hands. In a professional setting. When you're mixing with a lot of people, you don't know their vaccination status. That type of thing. I think that's where I I put forth a bit more caution for myself Carry Althoff is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She's not adamantly opposed to handshaking. But after the year plus, we just had we learned a lot about not shaking hands. Colds were down the flu nearly non existent and you remember what Anthony Fauci said last year, don't you? You don't ever shake anybody's hand. That's clear. I don't think we never should have to shake hands ever again. To be honest with you carry wonders if we truly need to go that farm, especially if you're willing to meet somewhere in the middle. You're going to bring your handshake back. Just make sure you're also bringing your hand sanitizer. And if a friend or coworker approaches with outstretched hand and you're not interested in touching what they just touched, meet them with a friendly wave or prepare a fist bump before you're in each other's personal space. After all, it's the new normal. Some things may not be the same again for a long time. However, I'm still hoping the Air five will be cool once again. Brian Calvert ammonia. It's just going to be so strange to get used to it again and again for being an affectionate person that I have been. Everybody knows. I like to do the hugs and the handshakes. It's been a very, very difficult year and I've lost the habit. I got to regain it here, so just have fun at work, and we'll see how it goes. Hand sanitizer nearby. I'm still looking at the boxing gloves here in the studio. Had co Mo news. And how long has it been? Since you've been wearing gloves to 8 50 is our time put on gloves for a weekend edition of the Pell Insurance, Money and business report for us this morning. Here's Art Sanders. The Wall Street stocks closed higher on Friday. The S and P 500 gaining 5000.8%. Now. NASDAQ also rose after reports of the nation's job market was stronger last month and expected, the federal appeals court says a 2019 environmental protection Agency rule change that allowed for the sale of a 15% ethanol gasoline blend in the summer months is contrary to federal law. Friday's ruling deals a significant blow to the ethanol industry and corn farmers. They had anticipated increased ethanol demand through year around sale of the higher ethanol blend. Trump administration made the change to allow for a year round E 15 sales to fulfill a campaign promise to Midwest farmers. Three judges on the U. S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that federal law is clear that lawmakers did not intend to allow ethanol blends higher than 10% to be widely sold. Year round. We check your money at 20 and 50 past the hour on common news, Okay with the Indy 500 Oost Memorial Day weekend of This event is to the fourth of July and more exciting because it doesn't happen till tomorrow. So you can cheer on because we have a local competitor in this longtime tradition..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"johns hopkins bloomberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"I'm Tim stand of acne Interactive brokers Studios in New York and just a few minutes we're going to get back to Dr Amos Adalja, senior scholar at the and infectious disease physician at the Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. We're going to focus the second half of our conversation on what we can expect for kids during the coronavirus pandemic and during the vaccination process here in the U. S vaccine is approved for kids 12 and up. But there is still the question of millions of American Children who are not yet eligible for the vaccine. All that and more coming up in just a few minutes. In the meantime, let's get back to Charlie Pellet with an update on the trading day. And we're looking at records with the Dow, the S and P. NASDAQ all advancing Tim right now, the S and P up 21 record 42 41 higher by 5/10 of 1% Developing story. We're keeping an eye on, according to sources. Science five. That's a start up the designs. Semiconductors has received takeover interest from investors. Intel Corp Intel said to be offering Science five offering to acquire Science five for more than $2 billion equities trading records Benchmark Treasury yields holding around the lowest since March as investors assessed data that showed consumer prices. Rose more than forecast last month. The Dow is up 87 points now up 3/10 of 1% s and P up, 21 up 5/10 again A record there as stack up 98 hard by 7/10 of 1% as stack 100 Index up 9/10 Both the Russell 2000 and transports are both moving. Lower Gold up 4/10 of 1% 18 95 the outstanding West Texas intermediate crude up 4/10. $70.25 a barrel on W T I President Biden has announced the U. S. Will begin shipping a half billion donated doses of Fizer coronavirus coronavirus vaccines the country's quote in dire need in August, making good on a promise to lead the global campaign against the pandemic. Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She was interviewed ahead of the formal announcement. I'm really heartened to hear of these plans, but the ultimate impact will be judged by how quickly we can get them into arms because This pandemic continues to rage continued to cause staggering numbers of cases and doubts. And really time is the enemy here, so we need to move very quickly. Dr Nuzzo with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, which is supported by Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Pfizer shares up 2% right now. 40 61 on PFE, Pfizer, It's German partner Biontech, the eight ers down and 9/10 of 1%. AstraZeneca's eight ers up by 2%. Madonna up by 5/10 of 1% Johnson and Johnson up 9/10 of 1%. Recapping stocks higher s and P trading at a record of 5/10 of 1% gold up 4/10 right now. 18 95 VMS. I'm Charlie Palette Dance of Bloomberg Business Watch. All right, Thanks. So much for that. Update. Charlie Pellet, Let's get right back to doctor a methodology. A senior scholar and infectious disease physician at the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He joins us on the phone from.
Bloomberg Daybreak
Pfizer's vaccine trial data holds up in the real world
"More again on the pandemic and the promising news about vaccines that Seems to continue to pile up of late. We're joined now by Dr Amos, a doll jah, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a professor of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. It's always good to get your insights doctor and I want to get your take on this latest study out of Israel that seems to verify the clinical data we got on the Fizer vaccine that it seems to be Just about a super effective in the real world as it is in lab settings. What do you make of this pure reviewed study? This is great news because we always know that it's one thing when you're in a clinical trial, and you've got a lot of protocols and certain people who volunteer for those clinical trials, and then you move from that setting to the real world where things can be a little bit more messy. Are there a lot of variables that might not have been accounted for in the clinical trial, and that's what we really understand how effective the vaccine is moving from F ethical efficacy Studies to Real world Effective ists. I think this is good news, and it really cemented the fact that these vaccines are the passport and the way we get our lives back and put this pandemic to rest doesn't make you think that vaccines could get us to herd immunity that it'll be vaccines alone. That could get us to that step that we all want to see. Do you think that vaccines will eventually get us to herd immunity? But it won't be vaccines alone because already one third of the population in the U. S likely has some level of immunity from prior infection. Herd immunity, although it's a major milestone to reach. It's not the only thing I think to me the biggest The biggest milestone would be vaccinating are vulnerable populations completely so that this virus can never cause serious illness, hospitalization or death again that it could never threaten hospital capacity. I think we were will get there first. And then eventually herd immunity will will come. So I think the key is really taming this virus, making an unable to cause serious disease. And that's why our vaccine allocation process is geared towards those who are most likely to have severe disease. And I think we'll get there first. Before we hit hurted me. Did he speak about vulnerable populations? Doctor? I wonder if you're also thinking about the racial disparity that we continue to see in the vaccine distribution effort we saw Further evidence of that on the Bloomberg vaccine tracker just yesterday. What's it going to take to sort of bridge the gap between black populations receiving the vaccine and white populations? It's going to be very, very challenging. And I think that The more people that get back stated. The more people in those communities that are vaccine hesitant or afraid to get back there because they're on trusting of the of the vaccine or public health authorities. The more they see people get vaccinated and nothing untoward happened. I think the better it is. But I do think we need specific outreach to those programs to those individuals specific programs that really trying address their concerns almost on individual basis, because if that group does not get back stated they still represent they represent some of the people that are most risk for. Of your disease. They're disproportionately the ones who've died from this. We have to do better in order to put this pandemic to an end. And I think it's going to be challenging. And I think we're gonna need the innovative solutions. We're going to the community leaders to really Show people the data and be very transparent about how effective these vaccines have been in go through all of the safety data and hopefully persuade them to get vaccinated at much higher rates than they have been. Our last minute here. What's your level of concern about some of the latest variants we're seeing reports on with there's a New York Times report just this morning about a variant in New York City that seems to be spreading pretty rapidly and could blunt the effectiveness of vaccines. Yeah, it's hard to know exactly how to take all the news of the variance. We know that this virus has been making variants as soon as it jumped into humans and most very instead from made headlines have never made The New York Times Because they didn't change the way the virus behave. But there are some that appeared to have made the virus more contagious. Some that have Changed the way the virus interacts with the immune system and those air more concerning, But I do think when you look at our vaccine data against these areas, including ones that are more Troublesome like the one that they call the South African variant of the resilient variant. The vaccine's still do remarkably well on what matters. Preventing severe illness, hospitalization and death. So I do think that the goal when it comes to these variants is to stay ahead of them by accelerating vaccination programs to the fastest possibles rate. Some of these various don't pose a problem, but I think we need to do better attracting them and understanding them. But not everyone that you see is going to rise to prominence and I think we're getting better now at tracking them. Sequencing, and so you're going to hear more about various, but not all of them are going to be of the same important that it's gonna take some time. Specifically all of that.
Morning Edition
What to know about COVID-19 variants' potential spread, impact on vaccines
"And I'm No well, King. Good morning. Ah, virus that spreads a lot has many chances to mutate and covert 19 is doing both in this country. Researchers in the U. S now say they have found at least seven new variants here now. Other countries, the U. K South Africa and Brazil. They've all reported variants to with some big questions like Are they more dangerous? Still outstanding. MPR's health correspondent Rob Stein has been following This one. Hi, Rob. Good morning. Well, what have you learned about the U. S variance? So the first of these various was spotted by researchers in Louisiana. But it turns out the same kind of mutation looks like it also emerged completely independently at least seven times in this country. No, That's it awful large because it suggests the virus is doing something called convergent evolution. That's when an organism evolved in a way that gives them some kind of superior power. Here's what Jeremy Camille of Louisiana State University says about what the virus is doing. He spotted the mutation. It's infected millions of humans around the world now and it's probably just, you know, getting Into a more intimate relationship with our species. The question is, What is that more intimate relationship mean? Exactly Does it make it spread more easily from one person to another doesn't make it more contagious. Do do. Researchers know the answers to that? Yeah, well, no one knows yet it looks like it's spreading quickly in the places where it's been spotted, but it's not at all clear. That's because of the mutation. No viruses mutate all the time. Sometimes there are big problems, but a lot of times not so much, and there are other mutants that had been previously spotted in this country. Like you know, one that took over in Southern California Scientists are still trying to figure out whether it's more contagious or, you know, just got lucky. Now this newly identified mutation occurred on a key protein that sticks out from the surface of the virus called the spike Protein. It's how the virus infects cells. That's also the target of drugs and vaccines. So any change could be really important. I talked about this with Andrew Peco Shit. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. We should keep an eye on it. I myself have already passed this on to the people in my laboratory, and we're looking to see if we can find viruses with this mutation because if we can, we're going to bring it into the laboratory and try to study it to see what's actually happening here. Now, you know to be clear. Pecos means he passed on the details about the new various Those colleagues Yes, so they can determine you know whether they're more contagious or not Now, no one thinks there's any reason to panic. You know, far from it, actually. And we already know that there are those other various circulating in this country that we know we should be worried about. And what about the non US variants, some of which were identified before ours. How are they evolve? It Yes. So you know, more than 1100 cases of the one first flag in the UK have been confirmed. At least 40 states and British scientists just released more data than makes them even more worried than ever that, in addition to spreading faster, it may also make people sicker. You know, and the first one spotted in South Africa has not been detected in at least eight states and the one originally seen in Brazil is in at least two states. But the reality is they're probably already way more common than that. The U. S just isn't sequencing the genetic code of the virus enough to really know how widespread they are. And the spot any new variants fast. I talked about this with saucy of pop sq at George Mason University. We're flying blind right now, when it comes to mutations, and how prevalent they might be on the community already, so we really need to ramp it up. The CDC says. It's trying to wrap it up. But the country still has a ways to go. And what about the vaccines that we currently have? Will they help against the new variants? Yes. So the vaccines maybe someone that's effective against some of these various, but so far they seem to work pretty well. But the most important thing is to keep these viruses from spreading as much as we can to prevent any more dangerous ones from occurring. You know, the virus is still spreading like crazy in this country, which makes the U. S essentially a giant Petri dish that could easily produce even
Bloomberg Radio New York
"johns hopkins bloomberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"It comes to the pandemic, and for the latest on that we're joined now by doctors Easy grand fall of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health great as always, to speak with you, doctor, and we're seeing those signs. Certainly in terms of the case counts and hospitalizations dropping dramatically in recent weeks. Are we over the hump? No, not. I wish we were. But not quite yet. We need TOC still keep doing whatever we're doing this keeping his case is going down. Keep masking up and saying within your household and get the vaccine will be porn. Are you concerned at all that this cold snap that we're seeing from the Dakotas all the way down to Texas and parts in between? Is going to disrupt the vaccine distribution process. It looks like there have been a few small destructions hopeful that they can you know that these are anticipated events and that they can work around it, But, yeah, it doesn't make it harder for people to get out and get back home for sure. What about the signs that we're seeing now that it does look as though a lot of people are sticking to those mitigation efforts? What is it going to take for us to get to the point where we feel like the pandemic isn't spreading at the Out of control rate that we've seen in so many recent months. Right? Well, I mean, right now, things look as good as they have been are at any point during the pandemic. The cases are falling. The all the trends are going in the right direction. The problem is, we're worried about some of these more transmissible variants coming coming out and getting more predominant. So those like cause her? No, that showcases to start coming up again. And so I need to do whatever we can to get your people back. Page says that that some happening are you seeing signs that those faster spreading variants are outpacing the vaccination effort? We have seen that uptick in The number of daily vaccinations getting into people's arms. That's gotta help right? Absolutely. And we have not seen them interfere with the vaccine efforts yet, Um and we It's just a matter of trying to get more people. You know, they're they're get their immune systems ready so that we don't have that situation. It. It is a race because these these variants do appear from other countries to be more transmissible. They're not magic. All the mitigation measures that we have put in the place already. Those will work against experience. I don't want to alarm people, but on the system was over. We need to do it. We can't take Jake to get people immune so that the very critical want to get your reaction to some of the latest data we've seen on vaccine efficacy, particularly this early data out of Israel, showing a 94% drop in symptomatic cases for People who have gotten the vaccine. What? How should we put that in context? What does that mean? Yes. So when people talk about 94% efficacy, they think well, that means 66% of people got it. And that's not good. Well, that Z the wrong way to think about efficacy. Um, you need to think about it about your chances of getting sick being that much Do they love you? Our next to somebody and both get exposed on band. You're vaccinated your risks of getting covert and 94% reduced compared to your friends. And that's the way you should be thinking about it rather than the business gap When somebody's gonna somebody's gonna draw the short straw because that's not the way the statistics work. Ryan. Thank you, As always, for being with us Doctors Easy ground ball of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Karen, Right, Nathan. Thank you. It is 5 53 on Wall Street time now for the Bloomberg Law report. Let's get to the legal stories. We're watching this morning from Bloomberg's John Tucker..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"johns hopkins bloomberg" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"On the 10 year. West Texas Intermediate crude 59 52 a barrel up today by 2.2%. Gold down 3/10 of 1% 18 19 the ounce Silver up today by 1.1% Theo FDA has told my donor it can put as much as 40% Mork Corona virus vaccine in each of its piles this, according to The New York Times, citing sources Donor shares up now by 1/10 of 1% Doctor Andrew Peck. Kash is a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. And he told us this morning on Bloomberg radio and television. We are entering a critical period in the battle against Kobe, with the new variants emerging with Kobe cases. Decreasing, but still it levels that are way too high for us to handle In terms of our medical infrastructure. It's important for us to get his many people backstage as quickly as possible to help turn this corner. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is supported by Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP. And Bloomberg Philanthropies. Among some of the vaccine names Fizer of 8/10 of 1% by on Tech lower today by 1%. AstraZeneca 2.9%. I mentioned Roadrunner off by 2/10 of 1%. Johnson and Johnson shares they are unchanged. Recapping stocks higher S and P Up one point. I'm Charlie Pellet that there's a Bloomberg business Flash. Thank you. Charlie Pellet Well, President Trump's second impeachment.
Skimm This
What you need to know about the coronavirus variants
"By now you've probably heard about some new strains of kobe. Nineteen that kind kinda sound like spy names or secret codes you know be one one seven b one three five one and now p one. You don't need to memorize those names. But you should know that these new strains are causing governments and scientists around the world to pay attention especially because these strains of the virus seemed to be more severe oh and some of them are in the. Us let's rewind for a second we told you a few weeks ago that it's normal for viruses to mutate and at the time we didn't know much about the new strains of covid nineteen from the uk south africa and brazil now that we've got a slightly better understanding of these variants. Let's break down what we know and still does about these new strains and whether existing kobe vaccines will work against them to help. We call the befriend of skin. Dr amber desouza. She's a professor of epidemiology at johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health. She says it's normal that viruses mutate as they spread and especially when they're spreading among millions of people all around the world but even though mutating part of the typical life cycle of a virus. New strains can still be more dangerous. What is hobbling. Is that some of those variations that are emerging appear to be slightly more transfixed the ball and possibly have slightly higher mortality but it is still difficult to determine how much more transmissible they are. They are still within the same fear of type of action that we're talking about. But they have these increases that are a little concerning to of the streams that seem concerning the ones from the uk and south africa so far scientists have confirmed that the street from the uk is more contagious and suspect. That's the case for the south africa variant as well on top of that. Uk prime minister. Boris johnson delivered some more bad news last week. We'd be informed today that in addition to spreading more quickly it also appears that there is some evidence that the new variant the very that was first identified in london in the southeast may be associated with a higher degree of mortality how deadly potentially forty percent more but scientists are saying. This is still preliminary data. And they're going to continue to monitor. The emerging strains for warning signs vaccine makers including pfizer and madonna have been watching these new strains closely so far both companies have said they're vaccines which are already being distributed in the. Us should be protective against the new strains but they may be slightly less effective at doing their jobs. The good news so far. Is that the amount of change in the virus is not so different and the existing vaccine so that we have do work against the variance right now. There's a suggestion in what we've looked at. So far that the antibody response from the vaccines might be slightly lower to the new variant than it was before thankfully the two vaccines already in circulation are considered to be super effective already. Su a slightly lower antibody response isn't the end of the world. Bad antibody response to the vaccine is so strong. It's much stronger than when you have a infection with corona virus. Okay so that's some good news and just to be sure. Drugmaker adjourned has announced that. They're creating a booster shot to offer extra protection against the south africa's strain just to be extra careful but just because the vaccines appeared to be effective against these most recent cova strains doesn't mean they'll be effective against all future mutations. It is concerning because viruses continue to change ask transmission is high. There's for these viruses to change even more and it is possible. They could change enough that in the future. The vaccine wooden mark against them as for whether drug companies will need to continue making boosters to protect against future screens. It is not usual that all infections need to have a booster shot but if it ends up that we find an effective vaccine and are not able to achieve herd immunity throughout the world before this virus mutates enough that the efficacy of the current vaccine becomes low. Then we really would need a booster and that's why researchers and industry are are looking at proactively working on that question now so that if that arises we would be able to adjust
790 KABC
"johns hopkins bloomberg" Discussed on 790 KABC
"Together We could stop the surge 79 days. Hey, BBC three To one of the favorite son of L, A. Then shipped here. It's Ben Shapiro show and you can get it right. Yeah. Mm hmm. Slash Then we begin with our covert updates. Right now, Kobe continues to spread across the country. If you look at the latest statistics, actually Cove it seems to be a little bit on the wane. That is true both in terms of infections and in terms of deaths. The high number of detected infections in the United States came around the first week of January, according to world Ah mater's January to be about 308,000 diagnosed cases and covert in the United States. Today we're down to about half that 152,000 diagnosed cases of covert in the United States. The same thing seems to be true of deaths. The high and death was again right around that middle of January and January. 12th January 11th January 8th You're talking about 4000 deaths a day. Now we're dropping slightly, not not hugely, but slightly down to about 353,400 deaths today. The real worry right now when it comes to covet is the possibility of new variants that a bunch of variants that apparently are already present in the United States. We are trying to shut down travel from South Africa, for example of something Joe Biden has done President Biden. He's also attempting to shut down travel from places like Brazil. The reality is the Syrians are probably already in the United States because the United States is so open travel. We are not New Zealand. We didn't shut off our travel because we are in Actually largest economy on the face of the earth, with lots and lots of international travel. We are not a tiny island in the middle of nowhere with about seven citizens and some sheep. So anybody who tries to compare how New Zealand handled the pandemic without the United States handled the pandemic is really fooling themselves and again, just just as a general rule when we talk about which countries have handled the pandemic worst versus which countries have handled the pandemic the best When people say the United States has handled the pandemic worse than any other country. That is just not true. In terms of it deaths per million and population. The United States is not in fact, at the top of the list. The United States currently ranks about 11th on that list behind countries like Belgium and Slovenia and Chechnya and the U. K and Italy. United States ranks just above places like Bulgaria, Hungary, Spain and Peru. Right so we will see how things progress because Mexico is also getting hit really hard. They are rising on the list pretty quickly. Okay. All of which is to say that nobody has wonderful handle on covert and nobody is going to have a wonderful handle on covert until the vaccinations become prevalent enough that they're able to overtake the virus, And that is the problem with these variants. So what we're finding is that the vaccines apparently are still effective. On the various covert variants. But those variants are also significantly more transmissible even more transmissible than the original virus itself. And that, of course, was the real danger of the virus that hit the virus was more deadly than the flu. We're still figuring out whether it was three times more deadly than the flu or five times more deadly than the flu, and it really did very widely by age, but When it comes to the transmissibility. That was the major difference between covert and the flu, right even greater than the the problem of the of the deadliness of the disease was the fact it was spreading. So fast amongst a huge percentage of the population. Well. Scientists are now worried that these variants are even more transmissible. Kaylen rivers, epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, said. We're definitely on a downward slope. I'm or the new variants will throw us a curveball in late February or March. Which is why it is very, very important that we ramp up the vaccine distribution as soon as humanly possible like isn't right now nationwide, according to the New York Times a couple days ago, new coronavirus cases have fallen 21% in the last two weeks, according to the New York Times Database. Some experts have suggested this could mark the start. The shifting course. After nearly four months of ever worsening case of totals this week. University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics an evaluation, which puts out a predictive model that is widely used for planning, including by some government agencies, released a projection, saying new cases in the United States would decline steadily from now on, and so we have seen the worst of this thing according to them, but with new viral variants surging in places like Britain, Ireland, South Africa in northern Brazil. Some people are suggesting that maybe we're seeing alone before there is another wave of the virus, which again tranche out those vaccines as fast as humanly possible would be the goal here. It's more of this in just one second first, I've been talking about express VPN on this show for months. So why haven't you gotten a VPN yet? Well, everybody, I'll tell you this. There's never been a more important time to protect your digital rights. That's why I and thousands of my patriotic listeners choose to secure our online data by using.
Bloomberg Businessweek
French President Emmanuel Macron Tests Positive for the Coronavirus
"Macron has tested positive for covert 19 and will isolate for seven days while continuing to work as we've been reporting record tests now from the coronavirus, one concern for medical experts as they roll out the vaccine is reports of allergic reactions. Two cases in Alaska in recent days. Dr. Jason Farley is a nursing professor of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Importantly, there are safety measures in place we we once we give a dose of vaccine. We have the individual wait for at least 15 minutes to ensure that there is no animal axis or allergic reaction, and if there is we have clear protocols in place to address it. Importantly, we don't yet know exactly what component of the vaccine results in NFL axis. So the FDA recommended that individuals with a history of severe allergic reaction not received the vaccine at this time. Johns Hopkins
Morning Edition
Coronavirus Is Surging In The US
"One, But however you define it. Corona virus in the U. S is surging. Some parts of the country air passing more restrictions to try to combat the record number of cases this as we have yet another Corona virus outbreak in the White House. NPR's Alison Aubrey is with us now. Good morning, Alison. Good morning, Rachel. So when we say the White House we mean in the orbit of Vice President Mike Pence, several aides to the vice president have tested positive for covered 19, including his chief of staff. Nevertheless, the vice president decided to keep traveling to keep campaigning. What's the reaction been to them? You know, the decision to keep his travel schedule intact was made in consultation with the White House medical unit, the spokesperson said. Yesterday and pencils office says this is in accordance with CDC guidance for essential personnel there, basically making the case he has Essential work to do, including on the campaign trail. But public health experts Rachel are really questioning this definition. Here's Josh Sharfstein of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He served in the FDA under President Obama. The vice president should be limiting interactions with others because he could be harboring the virus and he could wind up becoming infectious. And so if there are essential activities that he needs to do in person, he should take extra precautions to do those, but otherwise I think he should be staying at home. Especially given around the country, including places. Pence is scheduled to travel such as Minnesota. The viruses circulating widely, right, So let's talk about that. Alison. What do the numbers tell us about the virus right now? The U. S has been averaging about 68,000 new cases per day. This is about a 30% increase compared to just two weeks ago. In recent days, new cases have reached record levels in several states, Utah, Tennessee, Illinois in Chicago over the weekend. Stronger restrictions took effect of bars and restaurants must close earlier in the evening. This is part of a curfew in the city. Other parts of Illinois have stricter rules, too, including new limits on the number of people allowed together and Rachel. They're certainly a lot of reminders around the nation to stay. Vigil eight, right? Hospitalizations from Cove. It have been on the rice too. I mean, does that mean we're likely to see more fatalities in coming weeks? You know, probably there are still a lot of people dying about 775 people per day in the U. S. On average. That's a lot lower than the highs of last spring. Part of this can be explained by the increase in cases among younger people who are less likely to die. But Rachel there's also been an improvement in treating people in hospitals. Physician Anish Mata is an infectious disease expert at Emory University. He is also a principal investigator for the H M Death Severe trialled at Emory. Last week, the FDA gave this antiviral drug full approval. Red death, severe reduced recovery time to 10 days for 15 days and also importantly, run desecrated treated patients had less use of mechanical valve leaders and other advanced oxygen's airport techniques. Compared to patients who didn't get room disappear. Now it's important to point out Rachel. This is not a home run treatment. It hasn't been shown to significantly prevent deaths among very sick patients, but it does have some benefits and Allison doctors now have other treatments they can offer as well as from desperation. That's right. Doctors have more tools in the toolkit. Now they have You know steroids, such as Dixon Math Zone better information about when to put people on blood thinners. Overall, the death rate appears to have dropped. In fact, a new study that included an analysis of thousands of hospitalized patients found that at the start of the pandemic patients had about a 25% chance of dying. Now they have an 8% chance. So still high, but definitely improvement. Yeah, definitely So younger people, you know, you mentioned more younger people have been diagnosed with the virus. So as we start to think about Thanksgiving Is there any way Tio Tio ensure that college students don't bring the virus home as they leave for break? You know, if you have a college student coming home to you find out if they're being tested, many schools are offering or even requiring an exit test or a departure test. Just before students depart for Thanksgiving break. I spoke to David Paul Thiel, He's a professor at the Yale School of Public Health about this He says. Of course, it's easy to identify symptomatic people. But this isn't good enough. I'm worrying about the student who feels just fine but who happens to have been exposed recently and who could be heading home to visit an elderly relative. And so we don't want to be sending little ticking time bombs home for Thanksgiving. I completely agree that we need to have everybody tested within 72 hours of departure. Now. Not every school can manage this given the cost. But many campuses are offering departure test, including big schools like Ohio State and many small liberal arts schools, too. During such as families that have college age kids either, right? I mean, my own family. We're trying to figure out what we do anything. We're all trying to figure this out, right? Everyone started figured out. So what can you tell us of this boy now, Zim? Well,
WTOP 24 Hour News
Worried that flu season and coronavirus pandemic could overwhelm hospitals, health officials urge public to get flu shots
"Health experts are still concerned that the typical flu season will be much worse due to the pandemic now is more important than ever that people get their flu vaccines were very, very safe and a moderately effective doctor Daniel Salman is director of the Institute for Vaccine Safety at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Corona virus and influenza have similar symptoms. So what should you do if you're not sure which you might have. Dr. Andrew Prakash co directs the Johns Hopkins Centre of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance. He says, contact your doctor, but don't just show up at their office. Let them know what your symptoms are and have them guide you through the process of where you're going to. Go to get tested. And for what? Michelle Bash w T o P NEWS.
WTOP 24 Hour News
From ‘pandemic pods’ to mask breaks: What Johns Hopkins experts say about back to school
"Virus. When their kids are going back to school or getting together in pandemic pods. The question of mask breaks has come up. Is that a good idea? Double d T o peace. Kate Ryan has our latest look at parenting in a pandemic doctor and that Anderson, deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, said anecdotal accounts of the spread of Cove in 19 after mask breaks were allowed suggest they may not be a good idea. Instead, she says, we have to help our young people to know how to keep their masks on, Anderson concedes. That's a tall order, but I think that we have to have more practice around how students can give incentives. Fact or being a strong and here's to this mandate because it's part of the safety protocol. Anderson spoken to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Webinar Back to school concerns. Kate
WTOP 24 Hour News
Washington, DC Coronavirus Update: 1 New Death, 65 Additional Cases
"776 new cases, eight new death, there have been more than 98,000 positive cases reported in Maryland. And word of an uptick of more than 1000 new cases in Virginia, 1114 to be exact and 11 do death. Covert positive cases in Virginia now total more than 103,000. Latest numbers illustrating a downward tick, as we say locally in Maryland and Virginia, But it is a small downward ticket experts say. We're not out of the woods. Not at all. They continue tracking new cases, hospitalizations in the all important positivity rate, looking at of all the people getting tested. How many of them turn out the house, Kobe Joshua Sharfstein with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, says the number COMPTEL us whether enough testing is being done and whether there's community transmission. The latest seven day average positivity rate in the district is 3.3%. DC is meeting the standard for having enough testing because it's less than 5% and if it's relatively stable at that number, then you're still seeing continued community spread. The picture is similar in Maryland, which sits a 3.63% Virginia's at 7.2% which means it could perhaps use more testing and also still has a fair amount of between new transmission. John Aaron w T. O P News and we're the kids in the Corona virus del mix some silvery new stats this morning from CBS News correspondent Vicki Barker on the
NBC Meet the Press
Public health expert: 50 percent effective coronavirus vaccine would be 'better than what we have now'
"We hit five million US cases yesterday for some perspective. The first nineteen case in the United States is believed to have occurred on February six. We hit one million cases on April Twenty, eight, eighty, two days later. It then took just forty three days to hit the two million mark on June tenth. We hit the three million mark on July seven that was twenty seven days later then just sixteen days later we rich four million US cases and July twenty third and again it took us just sixteen days to hit this five million reported case number right here in the United States joining me now is Dr Tom ingles beans, the director of the Center for Security of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Dr Ingles. Be Welcome back to meet the press. WanNa get a little big picture here. You know last week you were you put out a lengthy list of ten recommendations. You guys didn't call it a reset, but sort of like how do we get control of this virus? Now another one of your sort of colleagues in the larger sense Michael Star home is an op Ed. He's basically calling for a reset of some sort New York Times today editorial page calling this. It feels though as public health officials are all calling for some sort of reset. Partial. lockdowns things like this and yet we are not having that conversation at all on the political side of things. Are, are we doomed to sort of live with this virus now if we're not GONNA at all look at your recommendations I DON'T THINK WE'RE DOOMED To this fate I? Think we we know what to do. Other countries have done it. I think the purpose of these resetting reports these for a kind of a reestablishment of the basics. Is that we know that another country's universal masking fiscal, distancing, avoiding large gatherings. Those kinds of things have worked. If we look at countries like Italy and Spain and France, they have a total of about seven or eight deaths today and we have thousand, but it's not magic what they did. We know what they did. So I think if we act together in national unison, we can get there and that's what the purpose of these many of these reports are I want to bring up the issue of masks there've been some people that said if we had ninety five percent compliance unmask wearing, we could get rid of we could sort of get this fires under control. Is that unrealistic and we do need to do more than just mandating masks Do. Not, alone. Not by themselves or alone the solution, but they are a critical part of it. We know that physical distancing makes a big difference. We know that large gatherings are places where super spreading events occur and people have the opportunity or the virus has the opportunity to get around quickly and for. Many people at once. So we have to do a number of things together in terms of you know simple things like diagnostic testing results coming back much more quickly. It's it's unacceptable for the country to have to have testing comeback a week or even two weeks later it's not useful at that point there's no point even doing the test. So a number of that we have to do, but they're not they're not complicated they may be hard, but we have to do them kind of in unison. And all of those, they're not hard except when you when the word politics gets involved, it makes everything a little bit harder and I wanNa keep you out of the political space here. Let me ask you a question about that scenes and to sort of set expectations doctor Fauci implied that the first vaccine that we get, he hopes it's seventy five percent effective. The FDA has said they will approve any vaccine that's at least fifty percent effective. Can you explain to the public what that means what it means and what it doesn't mean and what our expectations should be for the first vaccine Well, we know that many of the vaccines that we use are not perfect. They don't prevent every case of disease but if they prevent a substantial portion of disease than that can help us get to a point where most of us are protected, the disease can spread quickly between people anymore a concept that is called her immunity. Herd immunity doesn't mean we will won't disease anymore. It means it's not gonNA efficiently as efficiently spread in an epidemic form. and. Is there a percentage figure in your mind that you think will sort of give us a huge? Huge step in the right direction is at a vaccine that is at seventy five percent or does fifty percent do you fear that could be a false sense of hope. I think we would take fifty percent because it's fifty percent is a lot better than what we have. Now we've we've no tools to no no vaccine tools or medicine tools that we can use to slow this down. So fifty percent would be would be far better than what we have. Now of course I think we all want something that is seventy, five, eighty, five. Ninety percent effective. But we'll have to see what we get and I think for the amount of time has passed since the beginning of this pandemic to have a vaccine that's even fifty percent effective in in the coming months or the beginning of twenty twenty, one would be phenomenal. But again, we hope it's better but fifty percent would be better than what we have now. Tom ingles be from Johns, Hopkins One of our experts that we have on here regularly, really appreciate you coming on and sharing your expertise with us. Sir.
Short Wave
How An Early Plan To Spot The Virus Fell Weeks Behind
"The government's missed opportunity for surveillance of the crow bias. What slowed scientists down and the loss time that could have been used to give some cities an earlier warning. You're listening to shortwave the daily science podcast from NPR. Okay Lawrence so it least. Six cities were supposed to be using surveillance systems that were originally built for the flu to test for cases of the Corona virus weeks into that effort. Only one had done that. So where's a good place to start? Let's start in Los Angeles. They ran into some issues back in February. They knew that tracking the outbreak through the number of positive cases that were popping up. Just wasn't a great idea. Because testing was so limited right in order to get tested at that time you had to either recently traveled to China or had close contact with somebody else who tested so. It was like a really high bar to get tested. Yeah and that was because almost no state labs could run the CDC's corona virus tests at the time they had sent out faulty test. Kits see no even patients with the right symptoms. Really couldn't get a test. Which makes it really hard to see. What's happening in a community but for this project the surveillance cities they were guaranteed testing by the CDC and they could send their samples to the agency's headquarters in Atlanta. So how did Los Angeles Start? Looking for the corona virus so county health officials starting talking to hospitals about testing these mildly symptomatic patients. You know and they got pretty far with one of them Dr Prabhu Gander of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. He told me when the hospital's board discussed it though they declined to be part of it we only had one confirmed cove in nineteen case in La County and they were concerned that if the second case in La County was linked to this hospital. That there'd be a certain stigma that would potentially be bad for the hospital. Okay so they were worried about the hospital's reputation. Do I have that right? Yeah and he says. The hospital was concerned that patients would be anxious and avoid the hospital if they found the corona virus there now county. Health officials declined to name this hospital because they said they agreed to keep discussions confidential. Well okay so how did L. A? Eventually get testing started. Another hospital reached out to county health officials and that was La County USC Medical Center the Chief Medical Officer. There is Dr Brad Spell Berg. And he knew surveillance monitoring was important. This is a leading edge indicator. If you don't look at it you're missing the Canary in the coalmine. You're waiting for the coal mine to collapse on you. Yes Spielberg wanted to do this. But his hospital into one of the biggest issues in this story of the pandemic testing to speed things up they were gonNA use tests from a private lab but there was only a small number of them. That was against huge resistance. The whole system is like you're wasting our tests. Don't do this. But his hospital pushed ahead and began testing at the county's Medical Center and some of its clinics on March twelfth. When the results started coming back it looked as if five percent of the patients they tested positive for corona virus. Bruce People that had been going to work going to social events wandering around in the community for the days and days. They have the right. This was well before we had broad social distancing policies. Yeah we didn't have that almost anywhere in the country at the time but once officials in La county new this you know they realize that people have been walking around with the virus more of them that they knew and this was a really key turning point in how they responded until then it was about trying to contain the virus. Us contact tracing to track down every person who may have been exposed you know but one of viruses spreading undetected epidemiologists will tell you that containment strategy just isn't enough so in the days after those results Mayor Eric. Garcetti issued a stay at home order for Los Angeles your actions matter and they can and will save lives. Okay so that's what happened in L. A. What happened in those five other cities most of them also struggled to get going? You know for example. New York City didn't get results from its sentinel testing until March thirty first. I couldn't get more information about why it took so long. You know the city is obviously overwhelmed right now but at that point the surveillance was too late to be useful. I mean there are already forty thousand cases at that time. Yeah not exactly an early warning at that point and you know Seattle also had struggles Washington state officials had an idea of how they want to do a sentinel surveillance when they first started talking to. Cdc One of the things. I propose very early was that we use samples from Seattle lose steady. Scott Linquist is the state epidemiologist. He wanted to use the Seattle flu study. Which is a research project that was already testing people with respiratory symptoms surveillance? That was up and running. My point was why. Don't we use those samples? It's up and running. Let's do it and that was denied the problem according to the CDC and FDA was that it was a research project and it didn't have the necessary approvals to run clinical tests for patients and they hadn't gotten consent from the patients to do the corona virus testing so the FDA denied the request at that time. Okay actually make some sense to me so was Seattle able to get anything together eventually. Yes about a month after that the Seattle flu studied did get all the necessary approvals. And they're doing testing now but linguists thinks they clearly could have used it earlier. Could've let us know that it was here before we had the community outbreaks and transmission in the long term care facilities but We miss that period so okay. This effort came up short to say the least. These were weeks when we could have been looking for the virus but the system itself didn't work those extra weeks had to have made a difference right. Well it's to say recognize situation where we been passed as wanted to. That's Dr Joseph Z. A deputy incident manager at the CDC said the delays happened because it was an entirely new virus. It took extra. Planning for collecting samples shipping them ensuring healthcare workers had protective gear. But whether that time made any difference question about whether this revolt we delay APP on longer. resulted in losing visibility. In those half thing and it's and I don't think so. Three weeks is an enormous amount of time to allow cases to accumulate without knowing about it. That's Jennifer nozoe an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. If it has sentinel surveillance stood up in A number of cities cities where we would expect to see cases. I We possibly could have caught it earlier and possibly intervened before the case numbers exploded. And you know when you look at the data. It's not hard to see that. The places with earlier state home orders seem to have done better there curves are flatter and they avoided a lot of the hospitalizations and deaths according to models. It really wasn't easy for officials to issue those orders. You know if you remember. There was a lot of debate about when to do it. But from talking to these cities the ones that had this hard data from Sentinel surveillance community spread was happening. They were able to act. I write so okay. Obviously this a very useful public health tool does the CDC have any plans to do this in the future. Yes a number of the cities and counties I spoke to are planning on starting sentinel testing again soon because you know as the outbreak starts waning. They're going to need to find the flare ups and spot the new cases before it spreads even more the trump administration is also talking about using it in their plan for reopening the country. So we'll be doing sentinel surveillance throughout nursing. Homes throughout inner city federal clinics throughout indigenous populations to really be able to find early alerts of symptomatic individuals in the community. Dr Deborah Brooks is talking about doing that testing for people who don't show any symptoms but who may still be infected and spreading the virus the epidemiology. I spoke to said you know this is something the country has to get right. This time. You know not just waiting for cove in nineteen cases to walk into an emergency room but designing studies to go out and looking communities and actually get the early warnings that this kind of testing could have provided in the first place.
Bloomberg Daybreak
U.S. Approves Abbott Labs Coronavirus Test For Hospital Use
"Daybreak testing for the coronavirus is going to be key in determining whether we've turned the corner on the pandemic and to that end the US government is nearly doubling the amount it pays hospitals to run the large scale test for covert nineteen that's been developed by Abbott labs for more on the testing that is now under way and needs to be done we're joined by Dr Eddie Pecos professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health good to have you back with us doctor Pecos now there are different types of tests out there of course can you sort of walk us through them and the differences between them yes so many of the tests are going to look for the presence of antibody he's not particularly in your blood and that will be telling us how many people were actually infected in this outbreak because it's one of the things we really don't know how many mild cases there were having a symptomatic cases there were sold out in the first thing the test tell us what people really want the test though to tell us is whether or not they're going to be protected from reinfection and that's something that we're all still working on because the tests that people are going to be taking that telematic that you've been exposed to the virus don't necessarily tell you that you're protected from reinfection so the next couple of weeks is going to be really intense work in research laboratories to try to figure out how these tests that everybody you're taking are going to be related to to to how protected people are from reinfection well it sounds like you're saying that we're in where you still need to take that first step of finding out just how many people have been infected where are we in that process right now so there are a lot of tests that are being rolled out by different manufacturers there are also a number of tests that are being developed at different medical institutions to move this forward so right now a lot of these tests are being validated with patient samples just to make sure that they're not only performing well but that the people who are performing the tasks are doing them in an accurate way and relatively soon be rolling that out to to to be testing as many people as possible now four still in the rollout phase it is is it safe to start talking at this point as the government already is talking about re opening the economy in some way well you know talking about future plans planning what to do is fine I think it's really really difficult right now to put a timeline on to anything because you know our public health interventions are working but we're still in the middle of dealing with the large certificates is so planning is great timelines for implementing those plans are what really is up in the air right now so what are you looking for or is it in terms of scalability of the tests that will determine whether people have been infected right now it's it's all it's all about the manufacturing capabilities so making sure that the manufacturers particularly of the really good tests are able to produce large amounts of those tests that can be distributed same issue that we ran into at the beginning of the outbreak with a test for the virus it's not just about the ability to implement the tasks about getting those tests into the laboratories of people who can do them effectively terms of developing the test to determine whether people are at risk of reinfection where are we in that process so I think we're we're we're right in the middle of everything right now you know with the outbreak only being you know a few months old here in the US for only now starting to see those people who have completely recovered and can be monitored for reinfection so that's an important thing that that research laboratories are dealing in clinical laboratories are doing and we should know again some of those answers start rolling out in the next couple of weeks based on studies here in the US and we also look to Southeast Asia where the epidemic started earlier and they're already well into that phase of starting the people who have been infected and whether or not they're susceptible to reinfection is there more that can be done on the government side to facilitate further development of these crucial tests I I think resources and distribution are really the critical things you want to make sure that these tests are being distributed equally across the country and in particular again different parts of the country going to be a different phases of the outbreak so you want these antibody tests to be put in places that are in that recovery phase so you can start analyzing the people that have survived the infection and recovered well you don't want necessarily them to be in every place at the same time so again it's it's a planning if that distribution of resources where I think the federal government can really step in and help facilitate things as we look to ward those resources being ramped up president trump is now saying that he wants to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization over its response to the pandemic in about the thirty or forty five seconds we have left here how seriously should the medical community take that threat what would the impact be well you know the WHL plays a very critical role particularly in in in in other countries and resource deprived countries so you know I don't know if it's really justified to be able to in the middle of a pandemic criticize and all funding to an agency that is important terms of rolling out resources to to resource starved
Weekend Edition Saturday
As Jails And Prisons Reduce Populations, Advocates Call On ICE To Do The Same
"There is a growing fear that a corona virus outbreak will tear through the federal government's crowded detention center for immigrants immigrant rights advocates are suing and detainees are on hunger strikes restrain immigration and customs enforcement or ice released detainees before it can French humanitarian catastrophe NPR's John Burnett has our story at present ice detained some thirty eight thousand immigrants in a network of private for profit facilities scattered around the country they're held in close quarters in jail like conditions while they await their fate in immigration court detainees are getting alarmed in the past week guards have pepper sprayed groups of detainees at two detention centers who refused to follow orders in a protest of their crowded surroundings I look at the book bundle three M. two meals on the plan worked out of Japan there's a lot of fear because we're not separated just to go to meals we have to line up in front of three separate doors all jam together we can't maintain six feet between this Tony Augustine is a Mexican national who is locked up at the rich would correctional center outside of Monroe Louisiana he was rounded up in an ice raid on a Mississippi chicken plant last August because he's in the country illegally like the majority of immigrants in federal custody Augustine has no criminal convictions a number for them if you want to finance in the list we have two televisions one is to the C. N. N. so we know more and more people are dying from this virus that's why were framed the guards tell us it's all lies you can't believe the T. V. but we know it's the truth a spokesman for lasalle corrections which runs rich wood says it has implemented a pandemic contingency plan which includes intense cleaning and disinfecting the living areas and monitoring detainees for illness but some federal judges have ordered ice to release a handful of sick inmates in Pennsylvania a judge said it would be quote unconscionable and possibly barbaric to keep them jammed in with other detainees a growing list of advocates from Amnesty International to the congressional Hispanic caucus are sending letters to parties complaining that more immigrants should be released on bond representative Joaquin Castro is chairman of the Hispanic caucus we Richard Gerson home on cruise ships now on a navy ship and it's no different with people were confined in a closed space in our detention centers where the corona virus can spread very quickly vice reporting at least eight detainees have tested positive for covert nineteen inside lock ups in New Jersey Pennsylvania Louisiana and Arizona the agency says the health and safety of immigrant detainees it's a top priority and to that end visitation has been suspended at all jails to prevent contagion but what about the guards ice reports at least six confirmed cases among employees at five different detention facilities Dr Chris barber is professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of public health in a call with reporters yesterday he said during an epidemic guards can easily introduce the disease into the facility as they have that right Chris island in New York most of these facilities have three eight hour shifts every twenty four hours people are in and out of all the time going back to their communities families human rights advocates point to other U. S. jails and prisons that are trying to reduce their populations to stop the spread of infections California has granted early release to thirty five hundred inmates in county jails in Ohio Iowa and New Jersey have done the same so far ice shows no sign of following the trend John Burnett NPR
Bloomberg Law
Latest on China's Response to the Coronavirus Outbreak
"The Chinese government has effectively put Wuhan a city of eleven million people on lock down in an attempt to limit the spread of the corona virus that is already spread to other parts of Asia and United States I talked to doctor Jennifer does a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins center for health security for her take on China's response well I think many people were worried about how China is going to react to the situation giving given a remembrance of what happened in two thousand three with the sars epidemic where there were deep concerns about officials hiding the scale of the outbreak initially and not being transparent about case number that that around I think compared to that situation we see a much more open and responsive China the health authorities reported the outbreak Kelly promptly and you know within weeks we saw the identification and sequencing of a virus that was shared publicly and you know researchers have been able to develop diagnostic tools based on that information so I think we are summoning courage by the response there continue to be important data gaps that would help us gauge the situation but for the most part I think all available evidence suggests that they're working hard to try to get a handle on the situation a short time ago the World Health Organization said that although the corona viruses that China emergency it's not a global health emergency for now apparently it was a divided ruling this they might revisit what should we read into that what should we not to read into it well for me what was the most important part of the decision that the World Health Organization made was not the decision but the convening of experts to review the situation I mentioned are still a number of very important questions about the brakes and the answers of which I think will really better enable us to judge what the world wide risk of this is the key one for me is how severe are the illnesses that the virus produces obviously were worried that there's been a discovery of a new virus capable of affecting humans but coronaviruses are not uncommon coronaviruses health and that caused retained respiratory illnesses and so it's not just the virus itself let's worry from it how severe is the a list of the virus produces and we don't have a great handle on that so I'm in favor of taking a wait and see approach to gather more information that becomes more compelling but I think what was really important for us to gather experts in an international kind of independent fashion to to review what evidence is available to ask hard questions and you have to assume that part of the questions they're asking is also an assessment of whether the officials are being transparent with the information they have over there so long I think but I suspect they don't know for sure is that if there had been sufficient concerns about stonewalling like they may have declared emergency because that would make them quite worried about China's ability to handle the situation but so far I'm I I think it should signal to us there's a sense that there is cooperation on the ground there between WHL they're the team WHL team on the ground and Chinese health officials that was going to a question actually how do these work as they call it is trying to call in help from outside and we're the cover is a WJHL they won't call up for example CDC another health officials who have gone to the area so we heard that about him from Taiwan coming as well as actually from other countries you know it's really up to the country itself to decide who to lead and not so far it seems like there is some degree of international corporation which I think is encouraging as we heard in the WHL there's a team logo on the ground helping Chinese health officials kind of threat to the optimality of this outbreak you mentioned doctor visit earlier sars because we all think about that right away what do we know about how this is similar to sars and how it's different I understand it's corona virus which sounds like a sars but there may be some important differences yeah so so out like sars situation we're dealing with now also involves the corona virus but what what was quite worrisome about sars was the fact that about ten percent of the known cases died that's a fairly high holiday and so when the things we're looking at right now is how many of their fans before the numbers have been relatively small and then trying to understand who the death have occurred what sort of people have been been dying from the infection so far it sounds like at least a majority of the deaths have occurred people who have had some health condition that might make them more likely that the come from an infection at the front of our could be a plant or something else and so that is potentially reassuring to say that that not be as deadly for an otherwise healthy individual we don't yet know the really important set of data that we need to understand how much this is or is not like sars another area where I think we need to understand is whether or not to what extent healthcare workers have become infected in caring for an infected chronic vampires patients and so on there have been some reports of healthcare workers of becoming infected not been officially confirmed and I think that's a point for which we are really in need of more information with that understand who the healthcare workers are what they were doing when they potentially became infected and you know how is it limited to I think the reports have been pretty health workers treating one patient is that actually true when did this occur etcetera that's I think a very important part because what we thought sars without all of the transmission within around health centers the healthcare workers who are caring for patients and then potentially spreading it to the contact and the community doctor Ruth mutation do viruses like this tend to mutate now so how far how fast yeah another reason why people are concerned obviously any kind of new virus emerges we always have to ask what are they doing now and is it possible it won't keep doing this the public it works to the possible to get more mild and I I think that's an open question with respect to this virus there's been a lot of speculation about whether or not a stable or whether or not it's mutating I think it's way too early for us to be able to tell that we're not even sure what generation cases were staying at this point we're still not entirely sure we fully understand the incubation period which is the amount of time between which somebody to come inspected and then eventually develop symptoms all of those things I think will tell us you know how many sort of generations of people become infected which then I think we need to understand that in order to understand how the virus maybe changing over time that was Jennifer does associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school