unusually long portions of court transcripts. sometimes, i do, you know, end up reporting breaking news because the news drags us along. but other times, we will try and do historical back ground for understanding what is important in the news today. i recognize that we do weird stuff on the show and if you have been watching the show for a while you probably know that, too. we mostly do weird stuff on the show because my brain works weird, and i'm aware of that. i know the way we heard things can occasionally be a surprise. but even with all the weird things that we have done over the years to cover the news, i have never before done this nor have i ever anticipated that one of the things i i would need do on the air someday to explain the news is break down a new trend in the recent amazon.com reviews for yankee candle. but that day has arrived, and so here we go. review number one, quote, no scent, very disappointed. one star. review number two, no scent, very disappointed and embarrassed as this was a gift. one star. and review number three, no wax. not lit. one star. and those scented candles purchased on line could theoretically have been duds sent out to amazon customers with no scent. and theoretically, that could be true but that's not what happened at all. there is an assistant professor of science who studys this phenomenon believe it or not, and when he saw the new trend in the amazon reviews for candles, he had an inkling of why it might be, why all of a sudden, scented candle companies may have had complaints about the candles not being smell enough. the professor used a computer program to scrape the amazon reviews for yankee candles from january 1 through yesterday and flagged reviews that used the words no smell or no scent and then graphed the number of reviews that had language like that on this chart. you can see this is a thing that has definite trends, big peaks and big valleys, and this chart of people advancing this very specific kind of complaint about their candle purchases. and now, independently on its own, this makes no sense until you overlay the charts about the people complaining candles don't smell with the country's covid infection rates for the same dates. the purple line shows the candle reviews of people not being able to smell the candle, and the red line is covid rates in the united states put on the same time frame. think there is a correlation there? one of the symptoms of covid is losing sense of smell and apparently, a very predictable number of them are blaming the poor candle company for the fact that they cannot smell anything. it's not the candle company's fault you have covid. this is not the first time this exact correlation was spotted. a researcher at bryn mawr found much the same result. it's good to remember that we already use metrics sort of like this in public health all the time. it's not all that different than looking at places where a lot of fevers are detected by smart thermometers and gives you an inkling that something is going on. but i have to say tracking people's complaints about the lack of the delicious smelliness in their lives from their candle purchases is a disconcerting, scary way to track a pandemic. but the pad candle reviews are going up, and the numbers are going up, and they say it's related. and the numbers themselves right new are as dramatic as the candle reviews are telling us. this is the newly reported cases in the united states. look at the far right side of the chart. look at how steeply cases are rising right now. the line on the far right side of the screen is basically vertical. in new york state they not only hit their highest case numbers ever. in new york state they broke the record for daily new cases five times in one week. this is new york state. massachusetts just today reported the highest number of new cases they have seen ever since the pandemic. washington d.c. has a relatively small population, and when big things happen to small populations, things can look warped when you look at the chart, and honestly, look at the chart and washington d.c. and the new covid cases. this is the washington d.c. chart of new covid cases reported overtime. look at the right side of that graph. it looks like a glitch. it looks like somebody dropped it. right? but that is not a typo. that is real and if you want a slice of life in washington in terms of people who live and work in washington d.c. who you heard of a lot of high-profile cases, senator cory booker, senator elizabeth warren, and senator koontz, and this week we have news from the white house that the staffers who work with president biden and vice president harris have been infected. both the president and vice president have been repeatedly tested themselves and remain negative, we're told, and it's all over the federal government. seven different people who traveled with the department secretary of defense, they came down with it as well, seven of them, and in all of those instances i just named, we don't know of anybody having to be hospitalized though some of them said they had covid symptoms but all the people i just mentioned have been vaccinated and boosted. so these are breakthrough infections for people who are nevertheless well protected from serious illness by the vaccine. and we also do know that, while, yes, there can be breakthrough infections for people fully vaccinated and boosted, and we know that. and we also know for sure that people who are not vaccinated are way, way worse off and more vulnerable right now. and i can show you that very easily. let's talk about new york city. new york state is having record breaking numbers and new york city is a highly vaccinated estate but you probably heard about the big uptick in cases. look at this. at first glance it look boring but it has a really good payoff in a second. trust me. so this is covid cases in new york city week by week going back to late september per 100,000 people from late september until now. you can see these numbers go upstarting right at thanksgiving in november. the new numbers start going up in new york city. they pop up a bit. you know what? put a label on that line. that -- part of that chart we're looking at, that line, that is how the cases have risen in new york city among the people who are vaccinated. yes, they have gone up for sure. and now, watch this. bink. there in the same time period in the same city. this is how cases have risen in new york city among people who are not vaccinated. yeah. they both started to go up at the same time, but, oh, dear. not only are vaccinated people who are getting infected way, way less likely to be sick or hospitalized because they had the vaccine but look at how fast the cases are rising in unvaccinated people versus people who have gotten the vaccine. man, get your vaccine now, please. if you haven't been boosted, get your booster. now is the time. look at this graph. which line would you rather be on? as this omicron variant just runs us down in the road right now, and that said, at the same time, it's a remarkable confluence of things, a remarkable confluence of events that this week, this christmas week we simultaneously have this epic surge of new cases from the omicron variant, lots of cases from people who are vaccinated but tons and tons and tons of case of people who are unvaccinated. we have a big surge of new cases and at the same time this same week. we have a big leap forward and all this interesting stuff to think about and potentially changeup around all the drugs that are available right now to fight this thing. this has been a huge week in terms of case numbers, through the roof. also, it's a huge week in terms of how we fight covid. i mean, start with the vaccines. omicron has been here long enough, and we know there is effectiveness from the omicron variant, but it's reduced effectiveness, so you need to get your booster, and if you are fully vaccinated and boosted, you can get a breakthrough case but for people who get infected who are at high risk of getting seriously ill and trying to stay out of the hospital, our country have had pretty good success with the monoclonal antibody treatments as a series of injections. but the bad news about monoclonal antibody treatments that saved so people and helped so many people over the recent months, the bad news is that the two most commonly used ones, they don't work against the omicron variant. that said, there is a third monoclonal antibody, and that is less available and harder to get and is in very limited supply but that one does work against omicron, and there is an interesting story about the administration. they have been trying to marshal all the supplies we have of the one last monoclonal antibody, and they have worked on the supply of it, and they have had interesting decisions to make with the very limited amount we have. on top of the monoclonal antibodies, yesterday and today, the fda approved antiviral pills that you can take home. the one from pfizer that was approved yesterday appears to be more effective and potentially have fewer side effects and safety occurrence and things to worry about than the one approved in merck today. so the pfizer appears to be a preferable option in terms of effectiveness and complications, and the one from pfizer, the better one is in really, really limited supply and will be for a while yet. and the merck one that is not useful for a lot of people for a lot of different reasons, there is more supply of that one, but again, it's not as effective, and it has safety concerns that the other one doesn't. and they can be used where other treatments are not available or appropriate and it has a bunch of restrictions and only for adults and not for pregnant women. we have millions of doses of that one and less than 100,000 doses of the other. so our whole landscape of what we have in terms of drugs fighting this thing, it's changing this week as we speak. we have a huge new crux of cases, and we have two new drugs approved, two others that were widely used were rendered obsolete by the new variant. you think you have your head around the various options, and it's all changed, and boom all of a sudden, you can't smell the butter and popcorn- scented candle. but even as this whole landscape is changing we have to do our best to make practical decisions about vaccines and boosters for yourself and your family members, about testing and what's your strategy to keep you and your family members safe around the holidays. oles, what are you going to do if someone in your family is positive? what are you going to do and how are you going to approach it if you or someone you love needs a treatment? the treatment landscape and the vaccine landscape and all of these thing are very much in flux, but the good news is the experts can help us understand them, and none is so complex that we as a layperson can't understand it. we have dr. david kessler, a science adviser to the biden administration's covid response, and dr. kessler, thank you for make the time for being here and a couple of nights ago, i said i would like to have you back so soon. i'm sorry that it was so quickly. >> my pleasure, rachel. >> reporter: i think it's hard to keep track of how our medicine cabinet is changing in terms of what our treatments and vaccines can do. can i screw any of that up in explanation? >> no. you got it perfectly. i think we have to recognize what you showed in the graphs we will reach the peak of the pandemic next week in the number of cases. we have to recognize that that is just bringing a lot of stress and a lot of concern right before christmas to a lot of families. i don't think there is a family and where i live in washington d.c. and in the new york area that is not confronting what do i do about being exposed to somebody, somebody with a positive test? and let me take a minute or two, rachel, if i can just to see if i can put this in context of where we are as we go into this holiday. this is no doubt a highly, highly infectious disease. there is an exploding number of cases. but what is absolutely critical to understand while this is highly infectious, most people who will get it will not become seriously sick. omicron infection is considerably less severe in people who are fully vaccinated and boosted as indicated because they are immunized against the variant. and the observed derivative of omicron is less than delta. cases are up 45% in the last week, but hospitalizations are flat. here's who i'm most concerned about in the next couple, you know, days, the people who really are at the center of who we have to make sure we take care about. these are, you know, people who despite vaccinations may be at increased risk, the extreme elderly, the medically fragile, the immunocompromised. those are people that we have to take great care to protect. and they, obviously, are protecting themselves. for the rest of us, i think this is very important. if you don't have symptoms or you only have mild symptoms, you know, we see the long lines. i don't think, you know f you don't have symptoms, if you only have mild symptoms, i don't think right now there is a need to stand in a line for hours to get tested. i mean if you have a home test, then use it. but if you have a head cold and a good fitting mask, please use it. and for those of us who are vaccinated and boosted, please understand we have our shield. we have our protection. yet, an enormous number of cases, we'll get through this just fine. >> reporter: one of the things i want to ask you about, dr. kessler, is the changing options for people who need treatment, for people who are sick and at high risk of advancing to serious illness and needing to be hospitalized and a high risk of dying from covid. the monoclonal antibodies have saved lives, and even for people who were not willing to get vaccinated, they were willing to consent to that type of treatment when they fell ill. i don't pretend to understand that. but now, the monoclonal antibodies that we have been using most often don't work against omicron. you can tell us about the decision-making you have gone through against the one remaining monoclonal antibody that does seem to work on omicron? >> rachel, you helped us over the months get out the word how important the monoclonal antibodies are. but when we started to see the omicron variant in south africa, at the very beginning, as soon as it got reported, no evidence in the united states, and we looked at the molecular biology and did our analysis of those mutations, and we realized that two of the three monoclonal antibodies were not going to work. we used our best science and recognized that the regeneron and the lilley were not going to work, and we pulled back for a number of weeks the gsk monoclonal, and that allowed us to have more that we shipped out this last week. we are shipping out more -- we have about 300,000 regimens in january. we just bought another 600,000 for the first quarter. you know, we're buying everything we can get our hands on. but the important part, as you put up your graphic again, you see that those monoclonals are only -- they are very important. but the great news is, you know, we have now that medicine for our patients. we have oral antiviral, two that were approved yesterday and today. we have a new intravenous -- the drug is not new. it's been out there, but remdesivir said that the people in the new england journal found profound results to prevent hospitalization. so there's a range of therapy. there is one that is very important. there is a monoclonal that just got authorized, and that's the astrazeneca. and that's for prevention, even before you get infected for people who are immunocompromised. so those people who were afraid to go out, cancer, organ transplants, other reasons they are immunosuppressed, it doesn't amount to a vaccine but giving them the monoclonal will give them the equivalent of a vaccine and that protection. so many more therapies today that we had in the past that accesses the oral treatment and allow the public to easily use the outpatient therapy. as soon as we have enough of these, when that pfizer drug, when we have, you know, millions of doses a month, it will take a few months to get there, that's going to be a game changer. >> reporter: justs as a lay observer of these things, that pfizer drug, i feel incredibly bullish on the prospect for that drug because the clinical trial data was impressive, and the unanimous recommendation from the advisory group that it be approved, and it's easy to administer, three pills twice a day and five days, boom, you're done, and three days after symptoms, it's a little harder to do but so much good to say about the pfizer pill and how many he was it could prospectively save. the only part of it i despair of is how few doses there are, and i know the united states government is buying up everything we can. but are we at the physical and scientific limit in terms of what could be produced in terms of the pfizer drug? i know the merck drug was appealing in a lot of ways, but the pfizer pill is so promising and a game changer as you say. anything we can do to get more made? >> we are working day and night, and pfizer are working day and night, and they have accelerated, but the chemical synthesis takes eight to nine months, and we will have 265,000 doses in january, but we'll be in the millions by april. >> reporter: will the administration have sort of a communication plan, a messaging plan to let people know about their treatment options? obviously, that one, when we got it in a way that we can deliver it at scale, it will be a good solution for a lot of people. unless that's available, treatment can be complex, and certainly, health providers need to be involved in the decisions. but is there some effort that you or the administration are planning to let us know more? it seems that upping the people's consciousness about the treatment options will make a big difference whether or not they can access treatments that might save their lifes. >> absolutely and it's not only patients but doctors, and understand. these drugs, and now we have five outpatient therapies that work against omicron, they vary ineffectiveness. they vary in their risks, and you mentioned they vary in availability. and so we are going to have to educate physicians, too, and we are doing that, and we will have to, you know, maximize the benefits of these therapies. we will have to be sure that the higher-risk patient gets the most effective immediate, and they go first. and the most important thing is those who have been immunocompromised and not been able to have vaccines there are drugs that are ships. >> reporter: dr. david kessler, the science adviser to the biden administration, it's always an honor to have you here, and thank you for your time and i hope it's a restful time for you and your family. >> merry christmas, rachel. you, too. you, too. ♪♪ experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list event. feel stuck with student loan debt? 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>> you know, using the name of a great man to bring up something so bad is terrible to do. and senator lewis, for an african american, he was absolutely incredible to and to throw his name on a bill for voting rights is a shea. -- shame. and the bill doesn't fit what john lewis stood for, and i think it's sad for them to do this to him. >> the lewis herschel walker is talking about is john lewis. and john lewis was not a senator. senator lewis, one of the greatest senators that has ever been. he was never a u.s. senator. he served in the house of representatives for over three decades. he then said to throw his name on a bill for voting rights, i think that's a shame. it doesn't fit what john lewis stood for. voting rights was the cornerstone of john lewis's life's work. he was responsible for the landmark 1965 voting rights act. and even if you can't wrap your head around that, it's this part of the interview that will make your head spin. >> you want to talk about voting, first of all, it's legal to vote, and you want to try and encourage people to vote. that's the most precious thing you have. and you get things done now. don't talk about it after or during. get it done right now. and why don't we go in and get the ids and get it done right now instead of waiting until it's time to vote and start talking about it, and i think that's what people got to remember. >> that's what people got to remember. you got it? we have to encourage. you know what i mean? mr. walker is trying to clarify his position on voting rights. he says senator john lewis would never want to be associated with. he is trying to clarify his position on voting rights there. i do not think he was successful. even if he diagrammed the sentences, we would not be closer to figuring out what he is saying, and it's totally fine not to be an expert on voting rights but to be clear, this is the guy that the republican party, the trump wing and mitch mcconnell wing are throwing their full weight behind for the seat currently occupied by raphael warnock. this is who they want representing the people of georgia next year. georgia next year. and, by switching you could even save 665 dollars. hey tex, can someone else get a turn? yeah, hang on, i'm about to break my own record. yeah. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ want your clothes to smell freshly washed only pay for what you need. all day without heavy perfumes? 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and there is also a company run by the same guys in shanghai, a different company that claim to be developing autonomous drone software. pretty cut ago cutting-edge cuff. and that company had zero employees. maybe the drones were so autonomous they were going to design themselves, really cutting edge. so the sec looked at the companies, publically traded companies in the u.s., and they determined, yeah, these were fake companies. these guys in china article not running companies selling smart phones or drones or cupcakes or touchscreens. but if you are running publically traded entities, there are a lot of rules about not being fake. so the sec stepped in and more or less kicked them off the stock exchange. for a couple of them, they issued what is called a stop order, and they forcibly stopped them from selling any more public shares. and stop orders are a serious thing and a rare thing. and in the past 30 years, 35 companies total have gotten stop orders. of the 35, at least 3 them were run by the same group of guys in china, in shanghai, and now, this chinese firm in shanghai that appears to specialize in launching publically traded companies that mislead regulators and investors and get everyone involved in trouble, i'll give you one guess as to what their new high-profile investment is. yes. it's donald trump's latest business venture, the former president's media can that was from the washington post. a chinese firm helping former president trump take the new media company public is said to have misrepresented shell companies with few employees as ambitious growing enterprises. huh. misrepresenting your company as a wildly successful business to get people to fork over their cash to you. whatever could have attracted this chinese firm to the founder of trump university? game recognizes game. right? i guess? the thing to remember about the trump media company that was just launched, announced a couple of months ago with great fanfare, donald trump will launch a new social media platform, and till be like facebook and fox news and netflix all rolls into one. and the thing about this company t appears not to exist with a security firm saying to the post, quote, there is a shell company basically merging with another shell company because as far as we know, the trump media company hasn't yet been formed. but that has not stopped this chinese firm company from raising hundreds of millions of dollars from the public to supposedly, eventually invest in this trump media company which does not exist, a financing deal that is under investigation by the sec and the financial regulatory authority because even by the wild west standards of the scummy end of wall street this, deal is sending up red flags left and right, and i know nothing should surprise us anymore but this is gobsmacking. and this guy turns to a dubious chinese firm to finance his first business venture since leaving office, and they are immediately under federal investigation because of all the previous cons they pulled off. joining us is the washington post reporter doug mcmillan who with his colleague broke this story on the chinese firm, and i really appreciate you being here. >> thank you, rachel, for having me. >> reporter: and over the last few years, one of the things i have found difficult at a personal level is his business, to some degree, maybe for the most part has been real estate and it strikes me that big city real estate of the type he was involved in always seemed shady and scummy for everyone on the outside who doesn't know the business, and it was hard to tell if he was doing more agregious things than everyone else in what is a dirty business. applying the standards in which wall street story, is this chinese firm an outlier in the deals with the scrutiny they have attracted? >> it's unusual for one of the most high-profile deals on wall street, and mr. trump's special perfect acquisition company is something that a lot of people are looking forward to, and drawn interest with little being known about the actual business. it appears that trump's media and social media business has put out powerpoint from the plans that they have, and they have very few known employees for example, and apparently no revenue. this is a company that through the deal will be turned into a public company overnight. so we took a close look at the deal and started looking more and more in the company, arc capital, and found that this is an outlier. this is a tiny, tiny firm based in tshimanga base -- tshimanga pie, and they have no offices in the united states, and we talked with the former employees who say that the founder is really interested in the idea of the u.s. regulatory market, and the sec, and it's easier to get into and easy to list shell businesses or businesses with little revenue or little behind it or early early stage businesses than in hong kong or asia. so part of the plan in the get- go was to help chinese firms with it is nasent business models, and they have little track record and no success stories and yet they have had a number of deals end up in the crosshairs of the sec investigators. >> reporter: is it a problem if trump's company turns out to be fake like those other fake by the venture.ose other fake by if it never comes to fruition, can they take none and run? >> so the interesting thing about this deal, it's a merger deal. it's not a traditional ipo, and that somehow gives them more latitude to make both claims. but once the merger goes through and the trump business is publicly listed, they're going to have start sharing their financials, financial statements, quarterly earnings reports, and you're going to have to actually start to see what is this business. and if it's a shell business, you're allowed to have a shell business but no active operations in the u.s. you have to, like, be clear and upfront about that. but it appears they're not going that wrote and they are going to try to build this, you know, media company, social media company, and yeah, eventually there are going to be investors who are going to want has to company happen. at the end of this deal there's going to be over $1.2 billion in donald trump and his associates' pockets. they're going to have a responsibility or there's going to be an expectation by investors who own shares in that company that they own shares in a media company. so yeah, i do eventually think they're going to have to make good on some of their promises. do they have to meet their rosiest possible projections trump is making? they're projecting over $3 billion in the next five years. i don't think legally they're bound to that, but i think you're definitely going to have to start seeing some efforts towards building a bills and it's going to be interesting to see what happens if that ends up not being the case. >> yeah, and i will believe it when i see it. when we cross that point of things. 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