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>> neil: all right. the vaccine rush is on. im talking specifically for kids. maybe as young as five. an fda panel approved pfizers vaccine for kids 5-11. right now a similar vaccine by moderna is getting ready for a study from the same fda panel. to dr. francis collins, the nih, the director. glad to have you. >> glad to be back with you, neil. >> neil: lets take about the need for kids to get vaccinated. how you feel about that? >> well, kids dont get the same level of risk of severe disease a...

Mix-and-match studies that are currently being done by the nih. these are individuals who got the j&j vaccine and got a second dose of pfizer or moderna. younger women, we know theres an association thats very rare but that association exists between getting the j&j vaccine and having this very rare but very serious blood clotting disorder. for those individuals, women under the age of 50, they should be getting the option of having a booster dose thats not the johnson & johnson. if they got the...

Of covid-19. >> gabe in of function research a complicated and controversial topic that rocked the community a decade ago. >> they have create a form of the deadly bird flu virus. >> the n.i.h. funded a dutch signtist that did something really wild. he engineered the avian flu virus to make it more airborne. >> when the virologiest revealed research, he called it quote probably one of the most dangerous viruses you can make. >> in the lab, a scientist took that flu virus and infeckcted ferrits. ...

Partially funded by the n.i.h. sparked a debate that led to a 2014 moratorium by the obama administration. that pause was lifted in 2017. under new rules gain of function research was given a very specific definition. >> gain of function works with a potential pandemic pathogen in a way for humans that could enhance its transmissibility. is this sort of gain of function research, was it happening? >> theyre working on bats sars like viruses that have never been shown. >> dr. shi told "the new yo...

Gain of function. >> these exchanges seem to assert that u.s. taxpayer dollars, via the n.i.h. via your organization went to the wuhan institute of virology and funded gain of function research that may, not definitively but may have been a source of this pandemic. what do you say? >> plain not true. dr. fauci testified publicly under oath that thats not true and hes right. we didnt do work that run against any of the rules. >> and dr. francis collins helped to define those rules. lets be clear,...

This week in the past weeks, theyre asking me to do things such as prescribe different drugs, when there are diagnosed with covid. i talk to them and say right now the safest thing for you to do is take the current approved courses and thats to monitor yourself if you require more treatment, there are well proved treatments by the fda, the cdc, the nih, that includes things such as monoclonal antibodies, if you have to be hospitalized will give you higher floor oxygen, will even give you steroid...

Diseases of society of america, they have a statement out there recommending against the use for covid-19 unless this is for clinical trials. >> so, yet, you got this thing that can be toxic to human beings and vaccinated and unvaccinated people i understand are asking you for it on a daily basis. when someone comes to you and asks for it, what are their reasons for wanting the drug and how do you respond? how do you have this conversation with them? >> yes, erin. this is a great question. i thi...

There are two clinical trials in the u.s. enrolling volunteers nationwide and so one is sponsored by the nih, the active six study. the website is active six study.org and university consortium led in minnesota that is the covid out.com trial. both of these will ship ivermectin to their homes if approved. they can get monoclonal antibodies that have a 70% reduction in hospitalization. can we do better than this? people are, if they want to help society try to find answers, there are these trials...

Option to not wear it. the risk/benefit ratio isnt there. >> bill: different states have different rules for masks and were trying to work through this. what would be your expectation with school back in very soon. >> well, the cdc guideline was pretty stern. with zero data. there is only one inconclusive study out there on masks and kids and no study funded by the nihs $42 billion a year budget. yet we had a very vigorous recommendation that all kids k-12 should be wearing a mask regardless of ...

Down that the public health interest of the students k-12 was to case them in face-to-face learning. theres a variety of negative public health consequences. that happened as a consequence of doing virtual learning. i think its imperative that we get the kids back to face-to-face learning and do all we can to keep them there. >> heres dr. marty makary. he said we dont have the information. no studies have been done that tell us whether or not kids should be masked. are they safer when theyre mas...