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am i right, you can get myocarditis from the infection?— from the infection? that's absolutely _ from the infection? that's absolutely right. - from the infection? that's absolutely right. the i from the infection? that's i absolutely right. the number of damage and illness and deaths from myocarditis from the actual virus, not only myocarditis, but margaret dowell —— myocardial infarction. this is an example of what some of us called weaponise health communication. what they do is take realfacts and factoids communication. what they do is take real facts and factoids and string it together to create a false narrative with deadly consequences. plenty of reaction. joe, where do you stand on this? the weaponisation of this and the attacks on the science community are going to be amplified because we know republicans are going to hold committees investigating doctor faucl committees investigating doctor fauci, doctor hotez and the roll—out of covid vaccines. fauci, doctor hotez and the roll-out of covid vaccines.— of covid vaccines. christian, the idea of using — of covid vaccines. christian, the idea of using a _
disorder of viral information, poison, _ disorder of viral information, poison, that is toxic and contagious. we know that people who are in— contagious. we know that people who are in the _ contagious. we know that people who are in the vicinity of people who are in the vicinity of people who are completely within this world of untruths— are completely within this world of untruths essentially can fall into the conspiratorial thinking. they're poisoning — the conspiratorial thinking. they're poisoning their minds and spreading that way— poisoning their minds and spreading that way of thinking, which has devastating ramifications for all thought— devastating ramifications for all thought of politics and authority. it's thought of politics and authority. it's so _ thought of politics and authority. it's so cynical that governor desantis _ it's so cynical that governor desantis pointed out that the opioid crisis is _ desantis pointed out that the opioid crisis is the real issue that is killing — crisis is the real issue that is killing people. we're talking about deaths. _ killing people. we're talking about deaths. i_ killing people. we're talking about deaths, i would like to ask doctor hotez— deaths, i would like to ask doctor hotez that— deaths, i would like to ask doctor hotez that 2000... but myocarditis, most of— hotez that 2000... but myocarditis, most of the — hotez that 2000... but myocarditis, most of the time doesn't kill a far as i most of the time doesn't kill a far as i know — most of the time doesn't kill a far as i know. but even those 224 will be used as— as i know. but even those 224 will be used as some sort of evidence that vaccines are bad. i can't think ofanything...| that vaccines are bad. i can't think of anything- - -_ of anything... i think a lot of those people _ of anything... i think a lot of those people who _ of anything... i think a lot of those people who died i of anything... i think a lot of those people who died had i of anything... i think a lot of- those people who died had infection.
twitter has been done in my favour he invited all of the prominent anti—vax eat activists back on the level of aggression have elevated. rhetoric has consequences. doctor hotez, thank you. the bad news here in the uk is to that the rise in the cost of living is still close to a ito—year high. the good news is that the rate of inflation is slowing a little. in november, it was at 10.7% down from 11.1 the previous month. that means that a basket of goods that cost 100 a year ago now costs 110.70. where would we see that? well, petrol and diesel prices are 17% more expensive year—on—year. the prices in pubs restaurant cafes were up 10.2% in october, the highest inflation in that sector since records began. overall, food and soft drinks up 16.5%. milk, cheese and eggs, 27%, oils and fat 29%. on the top line of inflation, the us is showing similar improvement, but not enough. so, in the last hour, the fed announced it's hiking interest rates again, up 0.5%. the bank of england will follow suit tomorrow —
the cuff remarks. would you want to do, sentenced everyone in the country? the answer was yes. you should do that. here's the thing. look at the uk. that is a place that has instituted both of those policies. has one of the highest booster rates. in the entire. world has a lot of testing. . that has not stopped in omicron outbreak. in the, and that's with things look like. when you look at the country that has deployed boosters a rapid testing better than we did, they are still having insane outbreak. that is the inescapable reality of the contagious-ness of this new variant and the world in which we live. for the future suitable future. doctor peter hotez is the dean of the national school of medicine. co director of the texas children's hospital center for vaccine development. author of preventing the next pandemic. vaccine diplomacy. active commissioner of health
-- as long as we refuse to vaccinate the southern hemisphere, we are going to have other variants. we would've been like if omicron had not been less severe and more severe, we would be having a very different discussion right now. the only way we are going to do that is to vaccinate the southern hemisphere. we think our vaccine is going to be the one that can really do this. especially from get some help. >> yeehaw. vaccinating the world is the only end goal here. the only way. it's a big world, but we got to do. doctor peter hotez, dr. mary bass, thank you so much. tonight, big news, federal jury returns five guilty verdicts in the south trafficking trial of ghislaine maxwell. convicting her for her role in converting incriminating teenage girls to be abused by her longtime partner jeffrey epstein. truly k brown, the most important reporter on this before the last five or six years enjoys fans on today's verdict means, next.
of the state. great pleasure to have both of you returning to the program. doctor let me start with you. as somebody who is a public health official. who's had to do the stuff of public health. make policy decisions, under conditions of uncertainty. bouncing very different interests. how do you think about the way i laid out that framework. how you are thinking about this moment. in a state that is undergoing a very severe spike. >> that is true. new york state is undergoing a severe spike. we presume is in omicron. have 60% of our variants now, the omicron variant. 67,000 new cases is the number that we have from yesterday. we have that omicron pattern that you showed for the uk. that you described in south africa. and since i've been commissioner, we've done two things. one, the governor has declared orders a mask, or vaccine mandate. the other is we on december 24th, instituted for health
the pool of covid vaccine vaccination efforts and how those are behind. doctor hotez, you've been working on a vaccine to use technology. to have produced the technology with no intellectual property control. that can be distributed in manufactured across the world. a low cost vaccine that got approval. i believe for use in india. that you've been working on. can you tell us about that? how important that is? >> in our texas children senator vaccine development. part of the baylor college of medicine. which i coed with my science partner for the last 20 years. what we do, we developed low cost protein vaccines. that the big pharma companies won't make. because they are four diseases of poverty. ironically, about ten years ago, we adopted a coronavirus vaccine program. that, on top of our parasitic disease program. all we know how to do is make low-cost durable vaccines for use and research. that service well when we made
Baylor University's Dr. Peter Hotez joined Andrea Mitchell on her Tuesday MSNBC show to discuss Dr. Anthony Fauci's appearance before the Senate Health Committee. Responding to Sen. Rand Paul's questioning of Fauci, Hotez alleged that attacks on Fauci are also attacks on him and on science.
Hotez's remarks came after Mitchell asked about the CDC's "credibility gap" resulting from their "confusing guidance," but Hotez said those criticisms are not the same as "the attacks on prominent U.S. scientists."
Baylor University's Dr. Peter Hotez joined Andrea Mitchell on her Tuesday MSNBC show to discuss Dr. Anthony Fauci's appearance before the Senate Health Committee. Responding to Sen. Rand Paul's questioning of Fauci, Hotez alleged that attacks on Fauci are also attacks on him and on science.
Hotez's remarks came after Mitchell asked about the CDC's "credibility gap" resulting from their "confusing guidance," but Hotez said those criticisms are not the same as "the attacks on prominent U.S. scientists."
many at-home tests would people need? how many -- what would the demand look like in and i have gathered about eight or ten experts on a call. and not one of them predicted we would be in the situation where we would see the number of cases doubling every two to three days. if that happens, you run short of just about everything. the other side of that is that does mean it's likely to get over more quickly. a very tough period as you say for hospital workers, very tough in terms of getting access to certain things. but also very hard to plan for. >> doctor hotez, very hard to plan for. i am curious your reaction to hearing him saying that. very hard to plan for. but i can recall interviews over the last six months where people raised the possibility of more