The Pulmonary Expert said even a healthy person would have died if they were subjected to what George Floyd was subjected to, as cnns Sara Sidener report. Thats the moment the life goes out of his body. Reporter today, the Prosecutors Expert medical witness did not hold back. Florida floyd died from a lowlevel of oxygen. And this caused damage to his brain that we see and it also cau caused Pea Arrhythmia that caused his heart to stop. World renowned expert on breathing and lungs, dr. Martin tobin, pointed to the officers actions, saying George Floyd died because the officers created a scenario in which floyds lungs were put into a vicelike grip. Almost to the effect as if a surgeon had gone in and removed the lung. Not quite, but along those lines. Dr. Tobin said four things caused floyd to stop breathing, including Floyds Position on the concrete, allowing no room for his lungs to expand. You mentioned several reasons for mr. Floyds low oxygen. One, handcuffs and the street. Right .
a flurry of new things. adam kissin inger became the third. it also involves an alleged relationship that gaetz had with a 17-year-old girl. all of these developments part of a broader probe into the congressman s friend joel greenberg who is already facing one count of sex trafficking. greenberg s attorney has said he s flip and working on a plea deal with the investigators and added, quote, i m sure matt gaetz is not feeling comfortable today. and then receipts, new details from the daily beast about alleged venmo payments to greenberg from gaetz and the records reportedly left behind. in the meantime, it s expected to be a very big day in the derek chauvin murder trial. the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on george floyd expected to testify, and that comes on the heels of a day of powerful testimony including this man, dr. martin tobin. he testified floyd died from a low level of oxygen, not because of drugs in the system but the knee on his neck that led to
while 2021 was the year of the vaccine, while national immunization programs began in many countries, the death toll from covid, compared to the year before, without vaccines has almost doubled. according to data from johns hopkins university, as well as the w.h.o., 1.8 million people died from covid in 2020. this year, the virus has claimed about 3.5 million lives. the head of the organization says with the twin threat of the omicron and delta variants and without a collective global response, this pandemic is set to get worse. delta and omicron are twin threats that are driving up cases to record numbers. i m highly concerned that omicron, being more transmisible, circulating at the same time as delta, is leading to a tsunami of cases. in the united states, the national guard is being deployed for more health care workers. now, with omicron in the mix, new forecasting from the centers of disease control updates 44,000 new covid deaths over the next month. tom foreman ha
yes. just as adults have been getting boosters or children over 16 have been getting boosters, now we re hearing that soon 12 to 15-year-olds will be able to get boosters so let s take a look at the numbers and what it means for this age group. so as we speak about 4 million children ages 12 to 15 are six months past their second shot, meaning once they can get boosters they will be eligible for boosters. another 4.7 million have been vaccinated more recently so that means they would be able to get boosters in the coming months. ryan, really the most important number here is an unfortunate number which is a third of children this age haven t even gotten one shot had. the initial vaccination is even more northern than the booster and more than a third of 12 to 15-year-olds have not even gotten one shot so that needs to be improved, but certainly good news that this age group can get boosters and we know that this helps fight omicron. probably a lot of parents somewhat reli
i m john avlon with kaitlan collins. and we begin with the cdc cutting the recommended isolation period for many infected americans in half. the agency now reducing the number of days from 10 to 5 if you are asymptomatic. the cdc also is now recommending the same amount of time for vaccinated people to quarantine if they are exposed to the virus with no quarantine at all if you are boost. tr dr. anthony fauci says it is part of an effort to get people back to work faster amid major concerns about staffing shortages at hospitals, airlines and businesses because of the omicron surge. president biden is now grappling with the failure that could have been foreseen as the omicron wave has exposed shortages in the u.s. and access to testing. many frustrated americans are now waiting in long lines for tests if they can get them at all. speaking to governors on monday, the president conceded that steps he took to scale up testing capacity weren t enough to meet the demand. we wen