I wish you good health. take care. nice to be with you. let s see what you re saying via social media. katherine, what do we have with regard to dr. emanuel? i ll be 60 soon, 70, 75 works great for me. i absolutely agree with his stance, i faced death from violence both from breast and colon cancers. i won t fight dr. emanuel makes it crystal clear in the piece. read the atlantic piece. i ll sput it in all my social media. he s very clear, not telling you how to lead your life or to end your life. makes it explicitly clear he s not for euthanasia but a guy concerned about quality of life at the end of life and living longer is not necessarily the right outcome. it occurred to me one last thought, if i may. it occurred to me that the most
Wanted to live to 75. as he gets closer to that age, is he sticking to his plan? in the october 2014 atlantic article, he vowed when he hit that age his approach to his health care will completely change, that while he won t actively end his life, he wouldn t try to prolong it. he cited statistics on how america is living longer and why that wasn t necessarily a good thing. in 1900 the life expectancy of an average american was approximately 47 years. by 1990 it was over 75. since his article appeared, the number peaked in 2019 at nearly 79, but due in part to covid-19 it most recently was measured at around 76.5. dr. emanuel showed this sobering chart about how creative productivity falls off a cliff after one s early 60s. he points out when parents routinely live to 95 children must caretake into their own
Interventions, especially cancer and chemotherapy. i m an oncologist as you mentioned, and i know a lot about them. i think the real question is not at that moment. the real question is how do you want to live your life? what does quality of life mean to you? i m pretty clear about what it means to me. and the reason i wrote that article was to suggest that people need to be clear about what it means to them. i wasn t telling everyone do what i do. i said you need to think about it. you just can t sort of blindly go in to old age which i think unfortunately happens to many, many people, and the medical system will do what the medical system does regardless of what your philosophy of life is. what i was urging people, think about what s important to you. what s important to me is to be mentally active, mentally engaged, doing what i can do to make the world a better place. i want to be physically active. dr. emanuel
75 was a sort of average age. it s not what what s important is the quality at that point. when you hit 90, i want to book the interview. good willing i m able to pull it off myself, okay? can we put that in the date book right now? i ll be i will be an amazing outlier if that were true, michael. there are outliers. i just put up a course on ben franklin. he was an outlier way back in the 1700s when he was i think 82, he participated in the constitutional convention, gave a very, very famous speech at the end of the constitutional convention that s worth looking at. he wrote part of his auto biography at the end. he was very vigorous all the way until 84 when he died. god willing, i should be like that. dr. emanuel, thank you.
Cooperate. my door will be open. i d like you to come by . i want you to see as you walk down the hall, a large portrait of lincoln. i want you to go into that conference room. i want you to see another portrait. my members know of this. it s a washington crossing. the delaware, you all know the story. it happened on christmas. seventeen seventy six . there was no iphone to take a picture. people wonder when it was painted. it wasn t painted by someone who was there. it was painted in 1850 and eighteen fifty one . he was an immigrant who lived in america. emanuel, you know why he
Hospitalizations in the u.s. the cdc reports omicron sub variant now accounts for more than half of covid cases in the northeast and 18% nationwide. but new cdc data shows it s projected to make up to 40% of all cases. joining me now is global initiatives at the university of pennsylvania dr. emanuel. good to see you. let s get right into this one. this new sub variant, what do we know about it and how should we be protecting ourselves? is it any differently than the way we have done for three years? it is spreading rapidly. so you know it has an evolutionary comparative advantage to the other major strains circulating. as far as protection, we re back to the same things we have always been back to. wearing a good mask when you re in public and around other people. if you re having a gathering,
Deaths from covid a year. 125,000. yeah. and katty just mentioned many of the vaccination rates, dr. emanuel, you wrote on that in a new piece in the new york times that analyzing the falling rates for children in the united states. you say it s not just because of covid. you write in part this, the decline is rooted in long-standing policies among some states that allow, for instance, for nonmedical exemptions, failures to rigorously enforce vaccination requirements and inadequate public health campaigns. here s how the decline can be reversed. states should eliminate nonmedical exemptions. states should also end extensions granted to school children to complete routine vaccinations and undertake vigorous community outreach and communication. children aged 14 and older, should be allowed to obtain without parental permission all missed childhood polio, measles
I m trying to plan on whether i need more staff for next year. i have no idea what january will be. nbc s marissa parra. joining us dr. zeke emanuel, he s an nbc news and msnbc distributor. dr. emanuel, thank you for joining us. i listen to that doctor and you hear how tough it is in the hospitals at the moment. and the fear of new variants, mixed with flu, that s coming on. you would think that the country would say okay, make sure you re up to date. i had a strange conversation with my 16-year-old and 20-year-old last month, i booked you with covid vax. you re both going to get your boosters. both have said, no, we don t want them. we ve had enough vaccines. i was shocked and appalled. is this the kind of response from young people? they think this is over and they
Don t need any more vaccines? yes, but i would say, you know, we keep thinking vaccines are going to prevent getting covid. right. they don t prevent getting covid. what they prevent is serious illness, hospitalization and death. and young people think they re invincible. yes, they are at lower risk from covid, but that s not zero risk. there are only two things that really can prevent transmission of covid virus. one is a good mask. and n95 mask and wearing it especially in crowded situations on airplanes and transportation. and the other is better indoor ventilation. unfortunately, we ve gotten into a situation where neither of them seem to be a very high priority to reduce the transmission. and i think that s where we re at, putting every emphasis on vaccines is not going to solve this problem. dr. emanuel, are we seeing any signs of a new variant emerging here in the u.s. or perhaps in this ongoing explosive outbreak in china?
After complaints from his good friend macron during that state visit. there are transatlantic tensions at the moment, notably around trade and the i . r a this inflation reduction act, which, as europe sees, gives an unfair advantage, is basically protectionist. helping american companies to the detriment of european industry. and it well, after emanuel kicked up a fuss, biden caved, calling it a tweak to the legislation already passed, by the way, that he sold to us as something that would give a huge boost to the made in america effort for things like electric vehicles and green energy. it turns out it was all a lie. the united states makes no apology. i make no apology since i voted for the legislation talking about. so there s tweaks that we can make that can fundamentally make it easier for european countries to participate and or be on their own weasel words,