president and ceo of resolve to save lives. dr. freeden, great to have you on. the cdc is now cutting the quarantine time from ten days to five days. the new york times notes the following. quoting here. what do you think? is it important to test negative before you leave quarantine? did the cdc make a mistake here? let s step back and ask where we are. we re in a very different time. the omicron virus is enormously infectious. it s spreading like wild fire. it s not a wave. it s a flash flood. what that might do is make it difficult for airlines to operate, schools to operate, businesses to operate. and the data is showing that it
prioritize high-risk people i do think that the rest groups are coming, but we just want to wait for more data to be sure that that s the right thing to do. another reason some say we shouldn t do boosters is because so many other countries have so little access to vaccines at all. listen to this from a former cdc director. fundamentally we re faced with a decision that is ethically inexcusable and politically inevitable. we do want to recommend what s best for americans but the fact is we re in a zero sum situation. there isn t nearly enough vaccine for the world. president biden said his goal is to vaccinate 70% of the world in the next year, but is dr. freeden right here? is this a zero sum game? i see it differently and i don t think it s ethically to be protecting our elders, and protecting our other high-risk people. we absolutely have to do that. those are not mavis numbers. look, we also still have to
problems in their containment labs long before the june anthrax release. i just don t understand why they didn t heed those warnings. dr. freeden has indicated that he was as surprised as anybody bit scope of the problems. the fact, that, dr. frieden you were so surprised is a problem in of itself. jenna: steve centanni in washington with the very latest on this story. steve? reporter: serious problems at cdc the head of that agency saying he will impose a moratorium on shipment of all kind of substances like anthrax until they can get to the bottom of this. in an incident last month at the cdc lab that handles bioterrorism agents dozens of workers were potentially exposed to anthrax when samples were sent to another lab without being sterilized first. nobody got sick but it was very dangerous. there was internal investigation. then a usda investigation and now capitol hill, congress is looking into it. the chairman of the committee in today hearing. listen. what we have here is a
medicine in the country, i interviewed him and he said exercise is the wonder drug. the closest thing we have to a wonder drug. because it increases everything you want to increase. mood, your movement, how good your body feels. it decreases everything we want to decrease. blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes risk. blood pressure is the thing he focused most on when i spoke to him. because he s very concerned about blood pressure being the number one cause of heart disease. you know what? blood pressure, you just go to your doctor and get it checked. one-half of all the people who have high blood pressure in this country are not under control. if you quit smoking, dr. freeden says, and you control your blood pressure you re more than halfway there. exercise, too. the exercise part of it as well gets you maybe to that 25%. why aren t more people doing it? i think they just don t have the right recipe. i think we re talking about so many different things at the same time. and the me
propylene glycol. it s working. look at him z. the problem is we re having an issue with teen and kids. 10% of high schoolers were found to be using e-cigarettes which is double what it was two years ago. the worst part of that is that 76% of them are also tobacco smokers. the question is, are they smoking both? does e-cigarettes make them smoke? i m convinced e-cigarettes can help you quit or at least cut down. it s not regulated. the fda is going to get involved and help regulate it. this will help a lot. let s take a look from what dr. freeden said to me. he s the head of the cdc. he had some very serious concerns about lifelong use. that will be followed by a reaction by spike babion, president of the national vapor club. take a look. if kids get hooked on nicotine because of e-cigarettes, that may make them lifelong smokers. not just of e-cigarettes but of traditional cigarettes. we know that cigarettes remain the number one cause of death in this country. the likelihood o