specifically they believe that the pfizer and moderna vaccines were so effective that after just one dose, we should given a shot to as many as possible and come back for a second as more is available. it is an approach taken by our allies across the pobd. while manufacturer wait only about a month in between both doses, the uk extended it to 12 week. and scientific advisers there said that this would provide protection to as many people as possible in the early stages of the vaccine rollout. but the wall street journal published a piece titled u.s. government scientists scepkept krepts skrecht cal and that they are pushing back against the one dose vaccine saying that there not enough evidence for long term protection. among those quoted, peter marx who said that they need to be used to prevent covid-19 and related hospitaliza hospital la death. and also peter hof also said that those clinical trials found a level of one dose significantly less than what they got with two.
and this week. now it is time for the last word with ali velshi tonight. i wouldn t have given it another thought. your conversation with osha really interesting. if osha systematically went through every business in the united states with an inspection, if it were sort of routine, you d get an inspection about once every 100 years. that s how badly funded it is. and there is, you know, there are real efforts particularly in the time of covid and immediately post-covid to wrap that up and it is being met with resistance from america s corporations. but if it ever matters, in the 50-year history of osha, it matters now that somebody is there to keep those rules safe. thank you for draug attention to that, rachel. thank you, ali. they very, very rarely do one of these temporary emergency rules. the last one they did was a asbestos decades ago. if they do one on covid, it will be a huge deal. thanks, my friend. appreciate it. it needs to be funded because it costs money
by may 1st, less than two months from now, he s directing all states and territories to make all adults eligible for the vaccine. you ll also want to mark july 4th on your calendar. biden is expected to announce americans should be able to gather in small groups by then. two dates to look forward to as today marks one year since the world health organization officially declared the coronavirus to be a pandemic. it s a sobering milestone with more than half a million american lives lost between that declaration and tonight. even with biden s hopeful announcement, tonight is one of those occasions when it is important to step back and remember how we got here. starting one year ago today, march 11th, o 2020, when the world stood still. just moments ago on capitol hill government health officials testified on the government s response to coronavirus and this statement from one of the nation s top medical experts was not reassuring. we will see more cases and things will get
scientists into the spotlight with dr. anthony fauci becoming the trusted voice in fight to defeat the pandemic. this morning dr. fauci recounted what he was experiencing last march 11th with savannah guthrie on the today show. if i told you we would have 530,000 deaths in this country inside one year, would that number have shocked you and honestly, how would you have evaluated the response in light of that? well, i have to tell you, it would have shocked me completely. i knew we were in for trouble and you remember you go back, i said it then. we better be really careful. that day at a congressional hearing, i made the statement things will get much worse before they get better. that was at a congressional hearing a year ago today. it was march 11th, 2020. i said that. i did not, in my mind, think that much worse was going to be 525,000 deaths. when do you think we are going to see this country return to the normal that we re used to? well, i think it s going to b
cylinders, my friend. thank you very much. i appreciate it. thank you for joining us at home. happy to have you here. tomorrow democrats in washington will be wearing their sunday best. it is a really big landmark day for them at 9:00 a.m. they ll start the home stretch final debate to pass the american rescue plan. a big covid relief bill that is the first thing the biden administration and the democrats in congress put their shoulders to when they got sworn in just two months ago. and you know, time will tell how this legislation is viewed over the long haul. but just at face value, it is more wide reaching progressive legislation than anything past, anything passed at least the last two democratic presidents. legislatively in terms of its progressive reach, in terms of its reach to make things better for people who need the most help. it is definitely on par with the affordable care act, with obamacare. but this bill, what the senate passed this weekend, what the house