Im fredricka whitfield. The u. S. Is fast approaching the rollout of a second vaccine against covid19 approved by the fda for emergency use. Right now, a cdc subcommittee is discussing the Moderna Vaccine in these final steps before doses could be administered as early as monday. If the cdc director Robert Redfield gives the okay, the u. S. Would be the first country in the world administering two vaccines. An extraordinary accomplishment. But that hope is tempered by the persistent reality of this crisis. A key model now projects 562,000 americans could die by april. Were consistently seeing record cases, deaths and hospitalizations every metric, every week. So right now, on a saturday, congress is working. They are trying to finally deliver a covid relief bill to an American Public in desperate need. Congressional leaders say they have been close for a while now but Sticking Points remain and new ones keep emerging. So as it pertains to the promise of a new second vaccine for the u.
Sunday night at 8 on cspans q a. Over the next two hours we focus on the mission and role of the National Institute of health. We will begin with the director. In a half hour, the head of the institute of allergies. And then director of the human gen genome were project and then the National Institute of cancer and Mental Health. The work over the years has been counted for breakthrough in aids and Mental Health. We will learn more about the work and people behind the scenes including dr. Collins. We have live video from the nih. Lets start with basic questions. What is the goal of nih . What is your objective . They are the Biggest Research of biomedical science in the world. We want to understand how life works at the detailed levels and apply that in terms of coming up with new insights to prevent and treat disease. We support tens of thousands of grants across the country conducted by the worlds most cuttingedge scientist in the United States who are working on cancer, aids and oth
That number those number on heart anquan cert. Havent they been there forever like that . No. They are way too high. Heart disease, we have seen death from heart attacks, dropped by 60 by sporting Research Going back to the framing and that started sincety years ago. Basically laid out what are the risk factor for Heart Disease. We didnt know we discovered high cholesterol, smoking, all of those which were unknown as far as risk emerged. Out that have came a lot of development in Public Health. The development of very much something that nih Research Lead to. And a variety of other intervention including the ability to unclog arteries to the heart when it happens. 60 drop in deaths because of that research. We need go further and have idea about how to get there. Cancer certainly way too many people die of this disease. Actually the death rate has been dropping about 1 each year for the last fifteen years. We are on the right part of curve, we want to go down faster in these new develo
Were revised this past year in order to meet the requirements of the lowcarbiet. Are you satisfied that the lowcarb diet is truly cratering, its on its way out . Absolutely. I think that lowcarb ran out of steam earlier this year. The product launches for lowcarb and nocarb products peaked in the month of june and its been kind of downhill ever since then. This is probably going to go down as one of the great fads in the Food Industry in probably the past 50 years. Does that include the south beach diet, this death of lowcarb fad diet, south beach diet, zone diet, are they also doomed to disaster . I dont know. I think they probably will end up as fads but south beach and zone are a lot better than the atkins diet where atkins was recommending bacon and cheese and steaks and all the foods that are high in saturated fat, the kinds that promote heart disease. Where south beach was promoting more fruits and vegetables. But its worth noting that first the atkins diet isnt all bad. It disco
Were revised this past year in order to meet the requirements of the lowcarbiet. Are you satisfied that the lowcarb diet is truly cratering, its on its way out . Absolutely. I think that lowcarb ran out of steam earlier this year. The product launches for lowcarb and nocarb products peaked in the month of june and its been kind of downhill ever since then. This is probably going to go down as one of the great fads in the Food Industry in probably the past 50 years. Does that include the south beach diet, this death of lowcarb fad diet, south beach diet, zone diet, are they also doomed to disaster . I dont know. I think they probably will end up as fads but south beach and zone are a lot better than the atkins diet where atkins was recommending bacon and cheese and steaks and all the foods that are high in saturated fat, the kinds that promote heart disease. Where south beach was promoting more fruits and vegetables. But its worth noting that first the atkins diet isnt all bad. It disco