Company says its phase 3 trial in the u. S. Found its 72 effective in preventing moderate to severe symptoms and says it will file for Emergency Authorization in the coming week, that could mean approval by the end of february. Heres whats key, the vaccine does not require Ultra Cold Temperatures for storage and Shelf Life Is Good for up to two years, huge win. The other breaking story were following, scientists warning the u. S. Is in a race against time with the new Coronavirus Variants popping up across the country and one of those strains, the South African Variant, is now officially here. Two cases have been confirmed in the state of south carolina. Even more concerning, the state departments Public Health warning says that two infected adults had no recent travel history and no connection to one another. And its raising concerns the strain may already be circulating within the community as new data indicates the vaccines we have may be less effective against this one. That said, that has always been our concern that when viruses mutate and they develop strains and dominant strains they usually do so for some advantage to the virus. That may come in the tune of, you know, our vaccines not working as well. That said, i also want to note that, you know, we never expected a vaccine as efficacious as the moderna and Pfizer Vaccine at 95 efficacy. All of this as the u. S. Surpasses 434,000 coronavirus deaths, and 25. 9 million infections. I want to bring in dr. Kavita patel. Im so glad youre here. I want to start with, what do you think the Immediate Impact of this singledose vaccine could be . Hi, stephanie, morning, i know, so much to talk about. I think the Immediate Impact is on the world. This is as you mentioned an incredibly stable vaccine to use, especially in developing countries where freezers frankly are not practical. I think this is good news for the entire world. Its putting all of us who see how highly effective the first two vaccines that we have in the United States have been in a bit of a conundrum. Because stephanie, ill say it, while these results seem disappointing trying to achieve 95 was never something we thought possible and i think it makes even more critical some of the biden goals to get as many shots into arms now as quickly as possible and the j j vaccine gives us one of those tools because it does offer pretty high protection, especially against severe disease. J j says its vaccine is 72 effective. Can you help us understand the difference . Because 95 for moderna and pfizer, i dont know, to the layman like me, id want to go for the 90. I dont blame you, stephanie, and thats why i think its really important to remember when the trials were done and where they were done. To put it into context what we saw from pfizer and moderna on their data did not include Trial Participants that had these variants and some of the countries in which these variants have emerged. So interestingly enough youve got Johnson Johnson which was in trial in Latin American countries as well as data from south africa. Moderna put out data last week that against the South African Variant they did not have that 95 . So i do think putting the 95 against the 72 , couple of things, youre right, but i would also tell you that it is more critical that we get as Many Americans vaccinated as soon as possible. If we can do that with the two more highly effective vaccines in a shorter time im all for it but stephanie im looking at those numbers that the biden team put out, its going to be summer, end of summer. These variants, there are more out there, and the ones that we know of that are frightening some of us are here in the United States. So we do need to get these shots out and i just want to point out that 85 , if you look at the subanalysis for Johnson Johnson, it does show an 85 Risk Reduction in severe disease, which is very good news. So for the person out there whos saying, wait a minute, if it doesnt work well on these new variants, maybe i shouldnt take it at all. Help that person understand why they should take it no matter what. Look, i think that where were at in the country, including the Vaccine Clinics that im working in, we dont have the luxury of having choices as youve reported on supply scares, we are looking at trying to get what vaccines we can get from the federal government and state into peoples arms. What i would be very cautious, first of all, weve got a little bit of Science By Press Release but theyve been doing a good job at least getting as much data as possible. What i would try to look at is understanding differences by age. We know sometimes these vaccines dont work as well in people over the age of 80. Not sure if the trial had participants over the age of 80 but we would want to see if theres a certain demographic and especially the demographic that would benefit from this shot, stephanie, is one that is a high risk demographic of not getting that second shot. For other vaccines we have where you need more than one dose we can see anywhere from a 25 to a 60 dropoff in that second shot, and we know that with one shot you can at least get efficacy, or effectiveness to fight severe moderate and severe covid which is what were most worried about in the clinical world. President biden has signed a number of executive actions on covid, what tangible differences do you expect to see on the front lines with your patients . Yeah, the most tangible difference, i work in a Community Health center, a majority of our population is uninsured, stephanie, because they lost jobs, didnt have Health Insurance through employment, i was incredibly proud to see the president open up enrollment into the Affordable Care act from February 15th To May 15th. Consider this a Public Service announcement, if you do not have Health Insurance or you know someone who doesnt and they are struggling, even though weve said costs related to covid that are, quote, covered, stephanie, you and i know that bills pop up and people have to face critical problems when they have health care issues. That, alone to me, was the single most important thing, probably can cover up to 20 million uninsured people, and stephanie, heres the good news, about 5 million of those qualify for completely free premiums for certain plans on the individual exchange. Thats great news for any american trying to struggle with covid this year. That is excellent news indeed. Dr. Patel, im always glad when youre here, especially when weve got big news like this, thanks for join ing us. Lets talk to our reporters in the field. First to my colleague dasha burns in new jersey, you got an exclusive look at the Vaccine Shortages in my home state. Every day im hitting refresh, refresh to help my parents and thus far have been unsuccessful. Reporter yeah, stephanie, one thing i can tell you, after all of our reporting this week is that your home state is ready, ready to vaccinate on a massive scale. Today were at one of the six megasites in the state, this used to be the meadowlands racetrack, you can see the remnants of that still here. But today this is a site that can vaccinate 2,400 people a day. But today, stephanie, theyre only giving out about 600 doses, a fraction of what they have the capacity to do and this is something that were seeing at every level, state, county, municipality, the investment in infrastructure has actually been incredible but a lot of it is not being used right now because of the lack of supply. We visited the supply hub here in Bergen County where they invested in enough Freezer Space to store a million doses but right now all those freezers, theyre sitting empty because theyre only getting an allocation of about 1,500 to 2,000 a week. And this is something were seeing, like i said, across the board. Remember just a couple of months ago when we were talking about how these places were preparing, we were asking questions, can these counties, can these Health Departments really do it, can they build out the infrastructure. The answer weve largely found is yes, the thing thats missing is actually the vaccines. I want you to hear from the Bergen County executive, take a listen. When we First Talking about the vaccine coming out we had 217 cubic foot. One of those is at the hospital right now, the other one is in the room over there. But because they were saying were going to get all this vaccine we said, listen, lets get prepared, lets get the biggest we can get so that we can store the most and get it out into the population here in Bergen County and northern new jersey. Thats why you see these 27 cubic foot freezers ready to go. Reporter stephanie, the governor is going to be here in just a little bit, hes going to tour the site and were going to talk to him about what hes hearing from the federal government about when sites like this can really operate at their full potential, stephanie. You might have to go have lunch with my parents, dasha. I want to turn to new york where my colleague Kristen Dahlgren is standing by. What more can you tell us about this disturbing story out of new york that covid related nursing home deaths may have been 50 higher than were first reported, and the first reported numbers were upsetting. Reporter right, i mean, we all know what happened early on in the pandemic in Nursing Homes was tragic but now the Attorney General is saying it may be much worse than we were told so this comes out of a months long investigation by the state Attorney General. Shes saying the number of Covid Nursing Deaths may be much, much higher, this was a 76 page report and took aim at that March 25th Directive that sent Covid Patients into Nursing Homes to free up hospital beds. Its long been a political hot potato here in new york, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo saying he was just following federal guidelines and that Nursing Homes could at any point tell the state if they werent equipped to take those patients. The Attorney General report also found that some Nursing Homes didnt follow protocol, didnt even have Covid Patients isolated like they were supposed to. This morning the state Health Commissioner is taking issue with the report, especially that word undercounted. He said the state has always been very consistent with Counting Nursing Home deaths as those people who died in Nursing Homes. They werent putting into that pool anyone who went from a nursing home to a hospital and then died. And so if you add those numbers up, the people who died in Nursing Homes, the people who were taken from Nursing Homes to hospitals, and then a few thousand people that theyre still waiting on confirmation that it was covid deaths, that number, stephanie, is 12,500, and not the 6,000 that is currently on the books. Wow, weve got to keep reporting this story out. That is not good news. Kristen, thank you so much. Coming up, trading will be back open on the robinhood app for 13 stocks that were forced to halt some trading during the gamestop frenzy after the company got A Billion Dollar infusion from their investors and theres already at least one congressional hearing expected into what happened. Were going to explain by the anger of the trade freeze might be off base but the ire over broken markets in unfair system is justified and may be an opportunity to make them stronger and better for everyone. And next, no new Executive Orders are expected from President Biden today after a record first nine days in office. Could his use of the Executive Pen come back to hurt Coronavirus Relief negotiations . Well find out. Ting nothing bute till you find the perfect slice. Even if everyone asks you. Another burger truck . Dont listen to them that means cooking day and night until you get. [ ding ] you got paid that means adding people to the payroll. Hi mom. That means. Best burger ever. 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Is this winding down of Executive Orders, any chance its from criticism the president has gotten from a number of of outlets saying to slow down. The white house has been about the 1st Of February the Executive Order Plan of rolling out some of these initial steps would wind down. So they are commenting on the criticism but this was also a part of the plan. Part of that commentary is to say this is a need in the president s eyes to undosome of what President Trump had done, to put his own imprint on the executive branch, to fulfill smfs promises made on the Campaign Trail and to have a flurry of activity at the beginning where weve seen the president day by day taking steps in a variety of areas. Legislation is the answer to a lot of issues long term and that will be a harder slog. They have acknowledged there was criticism of the use of exec tiff orders, as there always is, when a president does this. Theres some uneasiness in washington about unilateral steps taken by a president but again they only really can deal with what happens within the executive branch. So its a setting of sort of the new terms of a new administration, and the bigger issues, like the covid relief package, that will take legislation and that will be a bigger challenge and harder to accomplish. Steph . Yamish, the president did take office amid multiple disasters, crises the country is facing. Does the fact hes leaning so heavily on Executive Orders tell you anything about how hard it is to pass anything with this congress . Well, President Biden wanted to hit the ground running and he wanted to also send the signal that this was a completely new era. In some ways he is using these Executive Orders to revoke a lot of trump policies that trump former President Trump passed himself by executive order. There is a sense that its hard to legislate in washington but i think theres also this sense among the biden officials im talking to he needed to send the signal that there were a lot of things that needed to be revoked, the transgender ban, rejoining the World Health Organization, things President Trump did unilaterally but there is now, of course, this big hurdling that the Biden Administration is facing and that is that right now the 1. 9 trillion bill based on my reporting would not get 50 votes even from democrats because there are real questions about whether or not its targeted enough and there are real questions about whether or not hes rolling in too much when you look at 15 minimum wage and other things included in the bill. In some ways these e. O. S do tell you when it gets to working with congress that that is where the big challenges lie. But as kelly o just explained there was a plan there to make sure that america, especially, and people who supported biden knew he was going to try his best to revoke trump policies immediately. Yamiche, in the last administration President Trump spent virtually no time working with congress to get anything passed. I dont think he had seen nancy pelosi in over a year. Take us inside the white house. How much time is President Biden spending either working with democrats or republicans in congress to try to get this relief bill passed . Its a good question and based on my conversations proind is engaging with congressional leaders, specifically and personally. My understanding is that hes been talking on the phone with republicans. Theres some reporting that hes been on the phone with mitch mcconnell, the white house wont say exactly when and how often the two men are talking but the fact that it seems like the they are speaking is more than what was happening when President Trump was in office as you noted, wasnt talking to democrats, especially nancy pelosi after he got very, very angry about being impeached the first time. So joe biden campaigned on the idea that he was a creature of the senate, that he is someone whos been in office for been in Government Service for 48 years and there is a sense, even among democrats i talked to, he needs to get in there and be able to talk to officials and getting people in a room together, even virtually. A lot of this is going to rely on whether he can Finesse A Bill in congress. Theres a sense this bill is too big and too wide and needs more focus. Yamiche, kelly, thank you so much. 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In just a few minutes the markets are set to open as we kick off the last day of a truly insane week on wall street. All week its been about the little guy trying to squeeze the big guys who are Shorting Stocks and today everybody is back in the game. Take a look at gamestop, it closed at 193 bucks yesterday, but was trading around 350 after hours. That is because trading apps like robinhood said it would allow limited trading only to resume for gamestop and other shorted stocks. That was after hours trading and that was a reversal from yesterday when things got so crazy the platforms stopped letting investors buy those stocks. This move notably sparked outrage from investors and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, who accused robinhood of manipulating the market. Why . Because it looked absolutely awful. The house and senate even announced a hearing to look into all of this. But robinhoods ceo vlad tenev said theyve got it all wrong, it was really about Market Mechanics. We did not do this at the direction of any market maker. We have lots of financial requirements, including s. E. C. Net Capital Requirements and clearinghouse deposits. In order to protect the firm and protect our customers, we had to limit buying in these stocks. So lets just walk through this, to be clear, this was not about robinhood or any of these other Trading Platforms trying to rescue over the little guy but they did fail. They had to stop trading to comply with Government Rules and basically keep themselves from going out of Business Screw over one side of the trade or another but they made it clear they were not able to step up in volatile times, begging the question can they do it Going Forward . My next guest is another ceo forced to restrict some buys yesterday, yanek malling, a Social Network for investing, and Jamie Rogasinski founder of reddit wall street bets where this all got started. Yanek, apps like robinhood and yours are about bringing the little guy into the market. Not just those with big accounts and broker dealers. What happened yesterday in forcing some trading to stop so those very clients of yours couldnt continue their trades, it looks horrible. It looks like theyre trying to hook up the big guys and people like a. O. C. And ted cruz who never agree are accusing platforms like yours of manipulating the markets. Yeah, so to be clear, we had and thanks for having me on, stephanie, first of all, we had trading open throughout most of the day. At 11 00 a. M. Eastern our Clearing Firm notified us they were halting the buying of shares. We disagreed with that decision but we work very closely with them to essentially reverse it. And a couple of hours later, before the market closed we unrestricted them again so people could continue buying those shares. Jamie, we see the outrage from the wall street Reddit Community and across the board, people not understanding this. But when jannick goes through this, when vlad, when this is not their choice, the way the clearinghouse operates, if you cant settle the trades and match them up then your margin requirements go way up and second tier brokers cant step up and perform what theyre there to do. Do people understand, a, that this is how the system works, and b, if they do, will they have confidence to deal with these kind of brokers Going Forward . You know, i think it was clear that yesterday they didnt know thats how the system works. I know before we got this type of clarity yesterday there was a lot of anger and to be frank with you i dont think that they have no know that this is how clearinghouses work. From the history of the stock market, you want to buy stocks, you push buy, or sell, push the sell button. You dont have to know about clearinghouses. In 2008 the Banking System almost collapsed because they lacked the Capital Requirements to deal with the liquidity crunch. What were seeing here is the brokers are not equipped with the collateral to deal with these what i call high risk thumb traders, not afraid of margin calls, this is a different structure right now but were definitely seeing from a fragility in the system, and traders, investors, whatever well label them, needing to know about these Capital Requirements from these brokers. Should you be paying for your trades . You cant have it both ways. If you want to have a free broker and pay nothing, then youre going to have limited situations, like we had yesterday. You could have kept trading those names, if you were doing it with a big firm, and im not trying to sell that big firm on you, but that is the difference, those big firms were able to meet those Capital Requirements. Is that right . I know some big firms also have a lot of money so thats why theyre able to do that. I saw some names and i dont know for sure, of firms that historically do charge commissions, i know these things have been changing frequently. But i think that thats a fair point, if individuals want the full Service Experience of being able to trade, sure they can go ahead and pay for them. Im not sure that its going to make that much of a difference personally. I think this demographic of traders that are responsible for these types of moves are more interested in this app, this easy to use, this interface, that is completely game simplifies the experience. The way the trades are executed theyre paying money based off what takes place behind the scenes, to be honest with you i dont really see a problem with that. But you realize that its the clearinghouse, the clearinghouse is basically like a utility that makes sure everyone has the appropriate amount of capital because one day when you want to pull your money out you want to make sure its there and its safe. Sure who cares . I want to buy amc, i want to buy gamestop, why do i care clearinghouses, whatever, that to me sounds like, well the reason why the banks failed is because, you know, these Mortgage Backed securities have these layered risky tiers, these mbss are set up and they use fancy words to describe, yeah, but you almost crashed, right, its not up to people to worry about these things. Its not a system thats able to withstand these types of situations and to not have to deal with them because they do outline the fragility of the entire system. Jannick . Yeah, look, i think there will be some aftermath on this for sure. I 100 agree that Retail Investors should be able to participate in the stock market like everyone else and we really did not agree with the decision of our Clearing Firm and worked extremely quickly with them to actually resolve it so that we could get so that we could unrestrict these symbols. I think this was an unprecedented effort and youre seeing the conversions of social and the stock market in an entirely new way. I think everybody has to work very quickly to resolve that. But i actually agree as far as i dont think there should be an issue for Keeping Enoughly Quiddity in the system to keep these things open but i think the event is unprecedented for sure. Jaime, however this week shakes out is this an opportunity to call for different regulation or different rules because all of us know, things arent fair, things are geared for the wealthier, if theres a new ipo, if theres a hot ipo, none of us can get in on it, it goes to the big institutions. Is this a chance, now that you have all these lawmakers focused, to demand Something Different and if so, what is it . You know, absolutely. Every major social change that ive witnessed in the recent future from gay marriage to marijuana legalization, all sorts of other things, it starts with a conversation. Usually theres a catalyst, and a lot of feelings that are pent up resonate. I have a sneaking suspicion that this all started because some participants wanted to make some money. It turned into this. They knocked over this hedge fund and all of the sudden all these pent up feelings stored from 2010 when Occupy Wall Street was around, are resurfacing. Not that were in the same situation, mad at the system, 1 , 99 . But i think they stored those ideas up and never got a resolution now the conversations are happening. Its wonderful the politicians are chiming in and its a conversation that has to be had and this is the way that changes begins. Jaime, jannick, thank you both. Im bringing in kara swisher, host of the Superstar Podcast Sway and pivot, your reaction to the last 48 hours . Its interesting listening to the last two interviews. Ive never heard stocks compared to gay marriage which i thought was interesting. But it is, in a lot of ways, a social well take it, ill take it. It is a social movement, at the same time people want to make money. And it does sort of bring into stark relief the idea that we have to change a lot of these rules that are happening. It doesnt make any sense to people why they have to follow those rules and i understand the clearinghouses because for example apex in this case got in the way of a lot of these trades. It does start putting people thinking about why is it done the way its done and i think thats a good thing. On the other hand, we forget in the middle of this, these companies, i keep thinking about gamestop or amc which are Stress Companies in a lot of ways, amc and gamestop have suffered from the pandemic and everyones forgotten that in this casino game thats going on between wall street and these traders. It could be a Huge Positive for them, suddenly theyve got an opportunity to raise more shares, it could actually give them a lifeline when all the company that is were talking about need it. Do you think this is a Tipping Point in the way people invest and the way markets work, or is this just going to be a wild story and were going to move on from it in a week . I think the latter, unfortunately, i wish it was the former. I mean, a lot of the politicians have weighed in but a lot of them just want to have attention, right, this is kind of something cool to get behind a populist movement, or a popular movement. But i think some regulators will look at this and think, why are we doing things the way were doing it. The thing is, theyve got to take it, just like Occupy Wall Street, and move it into an actual way to change these regulations in order to give everybody full access to the markets. And i think thats really interesting. A lot of people are really, you know, with the reaction from wall street was fascinating, if these people were the mob, or that one Hedge Fund Guy saying theyre taking their money from the pandemic, that was astonishing. Read the room, leon kind of thing. Its also none of his business. Its also none of his business. It doesnt matter where you got your money from, you can choose to do with it what you will. Yeah, agree. That is beyond, beyond, beyond. But it said something about the mentality of wall street is, how dare you come in to our casino, that we run, and do something not trash it, because i dont think they trashed it, play the game were playing. I think that is a really interesting trend and using social media, and this is sort of social media, or social movements online, to move quickly, is a really fascinating way. I dont think its chaos comparing it to a mob, i think, is unfair and at the same time i wonder whos in here also amid all the people that were doing this, who are trying to game the system. I cant wait to see what big Wall Street Firms who are on the other end of the trade thats the best we know when we look at this on the other side, it is not going to be the hedge funds are on one side and individuals on the other. We know on the long side you had all sorts of professional investors quietly getting in there. I want to ask you about one person. Sure. One of the grand champions of all of this, was elon musk. Could he could this entire week be elon musk master minding a way to get one of his biggest gripes on the minds of lawmakers . Elon musk hates short sellers, hated them for years, hes been in battle with them, hes crushed them. And now suddenly youve got lawmakers on both sides of the aisle banging the table saying short selling is unamerican which by the way lots of people justifiably agree with but they werent really thinking about it two weeks ago. We might actually get a ban on short selling. Its interesting, not just elon, but a whole bunch of people, dave portnoy, all kinds of people, stonk, hes been in battle. Hes won because theyve been wrong about his company. Years ago when i was covering aol, this was the same thing, short sellers all over aol taking advantage of things and didnt see the bigger trend coming. Short sellers, its not easy to defend them. At some points they actually do improve the system by pointing out bad things. That companies are doing, or manipulations and things like that. For the most part, they do feel a little like hyenas. And elon was thrilled to be able to paint them as such. And also sort of kick them in the teeth from a financial point of view. You know, he talks about this a lot in his he gets quite upset about the way theyve treated and misunderstood what hes doing. At the same time, you know, that price of tesla is pretty high. So its a really interesting back and forth. But in this case elon, 1 elon, 0 short sellers, or at least 10 elon, 0 short sellers. Hes got lawmakers talking about it and its important we start to look at things. Kara, always good to see you. My conversation on gamestop continues in the newest episode of the modern ruhles podcast. And well be breaking down the early origins of the breakdown. Weeks after the siege on our capitol, it is still striking to see razor wire and National Guard troops surrounding. One of our countrys most recognizable and important buildings. The controversial idea to secure the peoples house for good. Birds flyin high, you know how i feel. 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I do believe and i have said this all along that we will probably need a supplemental for more security for members when the enemy is within the house of representatives, a threat that members are concerned about in addition to what is happening outside. That was House Speaker nancy pelosi on the need for increased security for its members. Those words coming as we just learned that a West Virginia man was arrested on wednesday near the capitol. He had a gun. 20 rounds of ammo. And a list of house and senate members. He told police he had concerns about the election. In an effort to beef up security the Capitol Police departments acting chief has called for, quote, vast improvements to the capitols physical security, including permanent fencing around the entire capitol. Joining me from d. C. Vaughn hillyard. You were with some of the 5,000 National Guard troops still in the capitol. How long are they expected to be there . Reporter theyre still here in large part because of those serious conversations about the Capitol Security Perimeter are continuing to take place. The Capitol Police chief saying yesterday there will be permanent fencing around the capitol but hours later d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser countered and said there will not be. Lawmakers who oversee congressional committees that oversee the Capitol Police are also engaged in these conversations. I also on wednesday talked with generous sell honoray who has been tapped by Speaker Pelosi to review the breakdown in security around the capitol on january 6th. Hes still working on his findings to present moving forward. Thats what leads us here. In the meanwhile the National Guard is still very much present. There are 7,300 National Guardsmen still in the greater d. C. Area here from 26 different states. This is the d. C. Armory, which is sort of the logistical headquarters here where these Shift Changes take place, where people are coming and going here and that Security Presence remains here because the department of Homeland Security just this week said that there are domestic extremist threats that still persist here in d. C. And just yesterday the Capitol Police announcing the arrest of a 71yearold armed man who had an unlicensed firearm and ammunition and was sympathetic to these election conspiracy theories. Thats why i want to bring in Lieutenant ColonelMalik Freeman you guys propped up an operation of 26,000 guards over the last three weeks but this will continue into midmarch. What does this look like . It assures that our civilian partners have support, our Service Members, our job is to ensure they have proper food, lodging and transportation, Maintenance Support and supplies and equipment. We ensure they have all those resources to be successful to perform the mission. What is this . This is our d. C. Armory, as you we have a large amount of our logistical support, our water. We have meals ready to eat. Over here we have the uso providing 24 hours support to our Service Members, this is our food Service Support team and then the Family Support group also provides support. So here we manage the transportation, we manage the supplies, we manage the distribution of equipment, we this is a transportation hub, so to speak, transfer point for Service Members going on mission to the capitol or any of the logistics areas within the area. Lieutenant colonel, best to you guys and your men and women here. Stephanie, well continue to see this sort of presence here through midmarch until these additional Security Protocols are worked through over at the capitol. Stephanie . Well then i hope we have nice, warm, safe places for our National Guardsmen and women to stay. 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This morning a team from the World Health Organization finally doing fieldwork in wuhan, a year after the alarm was first raised here. Their focus on the first days of the coronavirus outbreak, relying heavily only chinese data. The pattern of the outbreak in people is going to lead us to where the animals come in. Thats what we think will happen. Were going to follow the human lead. Reporter first off was a hospital, but a critical Starting Point on the virus trail, the market that also sold wildlife for food. The w. H. O. Looking at Supply Chains before authorities closed it. When it was closed down it said that several of the vendors moved their stalls to this market. Finding out more from those who were there may prove difficult. A Disinfection Company that sanitized the market told us these days we arent allowed to talk. Even families of covid victims including this man who lost his father say they were warned to keep quiet while the w. H. O. Is in town. For months chinas government has tried to sow doubt about the virus starting here and has revealed little about samples taken at the outset. Why has the data not been shared . They isolated the virus, that is the issue. Reporter the w. H. O. Expects the team to visit the Wuhan Institute for technology, a theory that the virus to have leaked from the high security lab. There is no guarantee from chinese officials that they can go. We will try to get to every important lab that was involved in the early stages of the outbreak. If the evidence is there we will follow it. Reporter the labs directors told nbc news during our visit there in august that the lab would not be investigated as a possible source, but the doctor who was a coronavirus expert there said in a recent email to us she was, quote, pleased to participate and assist in the w. H. O. s study. With the virus largely under control in wuhan its unclear what the city can reveal now. As the w. H. O. Team gets started with what they call the real work. Stephanie, a lack of transparency and allegations of missteps in chinas early response to the outbreak have raised the stakes. Lets admit t all eyes in the world are on this city right now, on this team, on this investigation and the expectations are very high, but we need to keep those in check because its going to take months, maybe longer, before theyre able to unravel this mystery. Doesnt matter how long it takes we have to get to the bottom of it. Janice, thank you so much. That wraps up this busy hour, busy week. Im stephanie ruhle, my friend Hallie Jackson picks up coverage on the other side of the break. Any minute now were expecting the Daily White House briefing to begin. Ree expecting the Daily White House briefing to begin [ Engines Revving ] its amazing to see them in the wild like th shhh. [ engine revs ] for those who were born to ride, theres progressive. Go pro at subway® for double the protein on any footlong. 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