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Just 3 weeks until election day in the United States this was supposed to be done will trump selection to lose despite the hundreds of thousands who have lost their lives to cohabit 19 well that all changed 2 weeks ago when the coronavirus turned the president positive his reelection chances negative tonight trump is once again campaigning once again denying the dangers of the virus and this time hes risking peoples lives in the process i bring golf in berlin this is the day. I think its all of this is all political just to get itself to make trump looking at went through it now they say i am i think the time is right i think its good to see how easily another a person very young animates at the. Time so if youre lucky the barbecue is where ears ahead and vaccines are they going to be distributors sure im not concerned. I think work in all the time i got no postage stamp living in fear to come. Also coming up when the pandemic engulfed new york hope and help were dished out daily by Governor Andrew Cuomo his memoirs from that time are now in a new book including moments when some say the governor sounded and acted more like a president but i understand what the president is saying this is unsustainable that we close down the economy but if you ask the American People to choose. Whose between Public Health and the economy then its no contest. But to our viewers watching on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world well we begin the day with u. S. President trump on the campaign trail trying to make up for lost time and for a lost ground with just 20 days to go until the november 3rd election the numbers have never looked so dismal for president truong his democratic challenger joe biden is leading in the polls a lead of double digits it has been a rapid reversal for the president in the span of 2 weeks he has participated in a president ial debate labeled the worst in u. S. History he has tested positive for the coronavirus and spent time in the hospital only to return to the white house which is now a viral hot spot for a 74 year old man who was overweight and who test positive for the coronavirus the rule is lots of rest and quarantined for at least 14 days but not for President Trump he is again holding Campaign Rallies despite the all clear from his doctor the president is taking risks like never before risking his own health and the health of everyone around him. Back on the campaign trail after his own brush with a witness donald trump is no trying to revive his reelection fortunes. Tossed masks from the stage at the fust of several events this week. Following attendee separation from his hardcore fans it appears absence makes the heart grow fonder. I went through it now they say im a mutant i can feel i feel so. Good. To see everyone the while the thought lingered sought to alleviate any concerns the tightly packed crowd to me have about catching the virus. Then i said to my people we are going to take whatever the hell they gave me and were good at distributed around ospital said everyones going to have to. Go. Seemingly reinvigorated trump wrapped up the rally dancing with the crowd even as the tone jawed with a country in crisis. The contrast with democratic nominee joe biden couldnt have been stock visited another battleground state one of several east socially distance events across ohio trumps handling of the pandemic thats Donald Trumps presidency 250000 dead because of coverage experts say were likely to lose another 200000 people in the next few months unless we take some serious action and he doesnt know what hes doing all because this president s only worried about one thing the stock market he refused to follow the science its estimated that we just warn of these mass nationally we save over 100000. 00 lies between now and the end of the year or the pandemic the people the patients and the president to discuss all of this as the u. S. Moves ever closer to election day on joined tonight by eric hes an epidemiologist and Health Economist at the harvard Chance School of Public Health and a senior fellow at the federation of american scientists in washington d c dr fighting its good to have you on the day i know that you havent personally examined or diagnosed the us president but i would like to get your professional opinion here should the u. S. President be holding Campaign Rallies just a week after leaving the hospital where he was being treated for covert 90. Yeah thats a fair question to be here what the c. D. C. Says typically a mild case is infectious crittenden but your case is infectious for 10 to 20 days and the problem is trump was hospitalized you can say you was hospitalized caution but he was given debts and thats a zone which is only for severe patients according to c. D. C. Dont you joe so in any way you count that he was a severe case and he has definitely not hit 20 days now his doctor says hes tested negative on to answering tests but testing negative about antigen test doesnt mean anything because its not meant to rule out and say that youre not infectious anymore so right now theres still a chance hes infectious that he should not be out there and yeah and you know that despite the fact that the president s own doctor has said you should sean conley have said that the president has tested negative for consecutive days so hes implying that the president then is no longer infectious but theres a trust issue with the white house isnt there. You know theres absolute trust issue and often as you know though these letters all are never signed and all state released with the permission of donald trump the other issue is the testing made a consecutively using the rapid and thats now in addition tests which the f. D. A. These emergency authorization for this approval says it is not to be used for ruling out whether someone is infectious in the negative test does not rule you out that youre not contagious anymore and youre not supposed to use it after 7 days of initials and those this is why using that test is not allowed and the culture test they are supposed to use they have not done whatsoever so they have not offered any actual proof altogether it is entirely way too risky but its part of true to form 2 turning you know flowering c. D. C. Rule so its still very worrisome and at the rally we saw yesterday in florida with the president we saw huge crowds some people with face masks others without very little social distancing isnt there mounting evidence that these rallies are turning into super spreading events. Yes there is lots and most of these rallies less than 10 percent 15 percent at most where mass and theres 0 to cincy and just today minnesota where he previously had rallies they found over 2 dozen cases linked to president ial rounds most of them linked to trumps rallies so he doesnt hes thats a lot of cases and those are just the ones weve been able to track and trace so we know these events are running these coronavirus especially since these temperature of the monitors do not work and half of infections may be innocent medics and thats why this fire is so are to contain what of what about the white house as a viral hot spot am i correct in assuming that anyone who has been inside the white house recently should be considered a possible coronavirus threat. Yeah thats a very good concern because the white house has been using a very very loose security protocol and its its looser and you can basically hop skip over a fence basically be as rapid tests which capture most cases but not all abin what they use and once you test negative which is not perfect if people been gone without masks and this is why the white house its had over 37 cases within just the primer orbits of the white house and the president alone in the last 2 weeks that is more than most many many countries with millions of people and that is why this white house that is so insane but yet they refuse the c. D. C. Im blocked the c. D. C. From contact racing anyone and thats why its so frustrating im sure youve heard the news john johnson and johnson have suspended its vaccine trial because one of the patients became ill weve also got reports that eli lilly has suspended trials on an antibody treatment against code 19 this is how dr William Schaffner at vanderbilt framed the news take a listen this is Standard Operating Procedure it shows that the system is working it shows that people are be very careful on behalf of the volunteers and i think we need to not draw too many conclusions because as i say these are the sorts of things that can happen so dr if i go to get do you agree is there no reason to be alarmed by these 2 suspensions. You know these suspensions are typical and they are doing it out of abundance of caution because the if they were trying to russians they would basically keep on rolling people while they investigate but right now theyre suspending a roman while they investigate and again in these kind of trial the out with the want to do a full review of the medical record if youre off slope with the sure cause of it and maybe exclude those kind of patients in the future but at the bottom line this is a good thing and normally if it happened with any other trials that countless thousands that happened every year you we wouldnt hear about weirs hearing about it because so this is normal and it is the abundantly cautious thing to do its not rushing it this is the right thing to do this week the Health Minister here in germany said that germany will be able to begin to administer the vaccine in the 1st quarter of next year not for that to be possible he must be assuming that at least one vaccine will be successful that it will be safe and that it will get approval all within the next few months and is that wishful thinking. It is well this is why i dont want to count the eggs before they hatch chickens before the extension because the issue is there are sometimes vaccine efficacy and safety issues that come up and we want to know whether they work 1st and then that theyre safe before theyre laying out the out time line all the time or in general assuming everything runs smoothly could be fast and available for some limited amounts of my Emergency Health care workers but for the mass vaccination for the general population it wont be available until late spring early summer next year ok weve got about the middle that they were just asking you know the models say that we could be looking at maybe 200000 more deaths in the u. S. By early next year at the same time here in europe even here in germany where the pandemic has been somewhat well managed new infections are surging is there still time to prevent the worst Case Scenario from becoming reality yet theres definitely time and the key thing is hopefully not relying on lockout long term but also not relying on her community we have to do Contact Tracing testing and mask wearing mascara is the most efficient effective and distancing and if we have all these things that improve ventilation to prevent aerosol into our transmission i think we can prevent most of these deaths and morbidity s. All right dr Erik Feingold in joining us tonight from washington d. C. Dr we appreciate your time in your valuable insights its very important right now thank you thank you. The pandemic the corona virus threat and the Public Health crisis as we are seeing tonight this ordeal is far from over here in europe as well as the United States its not the time to publish your pandemic memoirs you might say but that is exactly what new york Governor Andrew Cuomo is doing the governor has just published a book that reviews his experiences during the early months of the outbreak the book american crisis leadership lessons from the covert 1000 pandemic looks back at the situation in new york and the response of new york authorities cuomo goes through those Daily Press Briefings which he held on Live Television it was those briefings that led many in the us beyond new york to Start Talking about cuomo as president ial material as Firm Leadership earned him praise some of it backhanded one critic of the book says that the governor has a tendency to be tyrannical exactly what we need in a crisis like this pandemic or even across the atlantic here in europe many people tuned in every day for Governor Cuomo those updates as new york city and new york state became the worlds pandemic epicenter to date nearly half a 1000000 cases have been registered in the state and more than 30000 people have died most of them in new york city heres a look back at those daily briefings with new york Governor Andrew Cuomo at the height of the pandemic the increase in the number of cases continues. Unabated as a matter of fact the rate of increase has gone up we need at a man among an additional 30000. 00 ventilators you cannot buy them you cannot find them so we lost another 507. 00 new yorkers and those are not just very large numbers we see thats every number is a face and a family and a brother and a sister and a mother and a father we control the big we apacs. Its coming down the other side that is good news if the data holds and if this trend holds. We are past the high point. Where those daily briefings became moments of media magic if you believe that they opened a path to the us presidency for andrew cuomo by pulling out jeff jarvis he is a professor of journalism and a media commentator he joins me from new york city jeff its good to see you again what do you say were those briefings i mean i know it was at the height of something that was that was terrible but were they for the governor moments of media magic. No i think there are moments of leadership magic as an endurance cuomo is a not uncontroversial character in american politics citys known as being tough and sometimes difficult but the contrast is what matter there the contrast between donald trump our utter failure as a president the most nowhere and cuomo who had the most difficult situations the 1st place hit by the pandemic new york at the crossroads of the world where people were coming in to bring it in before we knew what it was really before we knew what to do about it and how to handle it. And fighting against the federal government is providing absolutely no help so i think that his voice on television every day was a voice of trust in Science Authority trying to make Government Servants citizens these are all good things i know that here in europe we saw those briefings every day and me they were always followed by the president s briefings from the white house so that juxtaposition as you said i mean it was striking if there had been Strong National leadership coming from the white house do you think those briefings would have even been televised with a view evan been necessary. Probably not and certainly other states got worse than we did in time and there werent daily briefings televised across the whole country and even as youve told me to the world of because new york was was at the early moment in this and i also think well knows mean online on the air made it Something Special with his authority with his humor with his scolding told him you know you better not let me become down there in new york he had a paternal way to deal with us and i think we were we were hungering for real leadership from anywhere what happened in the u. S. Of course was that the various governors of the states ended up having to become the federal government in absentia they had to take over where the federal government failed they had to get it put they had to deal with with regulations do we wear masks or not all those kinds of questions and i think cuomo did an excellent job now of course the republicans are trying to argue that we have so many deaths in new york he did a bad job but again we didnt fully know what was going on we didnt know as much as we know now we still dont fully know whats going on and it was very early in the American Experience of the pandemic but i mean it was very early and that brings me to my next point that the pandemic is far from over and were looking in the United States possibly the 2nd wave coming through some people are saying that its premature for a book like this to be relieved that its premature for Governor Cuomo to take what looks like a victory lap when people are still getting sick how do you see it. To say that is to say that what we do right now journalism is premature you know we have the hubris in our field of saying that we write the 1st draft of history well cuomo was part of that 1st draft of the story and i think hes perfectly free to put out his book and give the lessons i havent read it yet i havent got it yet its just out today but i i think its a fine thing to come out with it and again it serves this contrast with the lack of leadership we have in the country it shows us a model of what a leader can be and right now in this country we need that from Governor Cuomo we need that too frankly from the new america were missing leadership here of this country and wherever we can find models of it will take do you think