Sidelining me in the middle of this pandemic and placing politics and cronyism ahead of science puts lives at risk and stunts national efforts to safely and effectively address this urgent political health crisis.

Joining us now Epidemiologists and Harvard Public health scientist Dr Erik Feig building Thanks so much for joining us.

How significant is this doctor?

And what role does the agency?

Dr Bright?

How does he played a significant role in trying to find a vaccine?

Right.

So he's in charge of Barda, which this agency is allergy funding from Congress, into which priority treatments and randomized trial The U.

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Government should find keys.

Deputy assistant secretary.

If I understand correctly as well, so out someone of that level who?

And he is not a political point.

He is a career person, knows Senate confirmation.

He's a career scientist, and he spent that time oust import.

Basically, putting science first above political agenda is woefully wrong, and new analysis found a higher rate of death among patients who used the malaria drug than those who did not.

Is there consensus on just how safe this drug is to use.

There is no consensus until have randomized trials.

But study out today was not yesterday was not a child but is much better than an anecdotal kids support.

And previously, all we mostly had where an expo case reports and that one yesterday was a mining of data set off 100 be AM our administration patients and that data is actually observation study but is from mining a huge large data nd adjusted for wider Iranian factors.

So it is as good as evidence that we have until we have the trials ready.

And let's talk about what we know now alcove in 19 impossible treatments.

And I remind us all of what we know as a Sfar is where we stand with treatments as so far and how far we still have to go in order to find a possible treatment or vaccine that works.

Yeah, in terms of finding treatments that work, we really need.

Trials and trial obviously take time.

Some files.

Some drugs aren't phase one for safety, but many drugs are in Phase two, which were trying to test doesn't work around here, there's tons of ground interview John Drug trials.

There's many other show trials that won't let them, but the pipeline and we will results on them within the next 234 months as they finished.

So I know people are very eagerly waiting, but the trial of the child that will prove whether something works or not are just around the corner, and it's much better to be safe than sorry.

And this is what Dr Bright has been trying advocate no go into safe drugs, improved their before you give them out.

And lastly, while we have you, of course, it's getting closer to a warm weather for much of the country.

What do we know right now about the spread of this virus in warmer conditions and explain also the concerns that we've been hearing about concerning a second potential deadly wave?

Yeah, the a lot of people are hopeful that warm weather will reduce the incident.

There's a champion might.

But we have to realize in Australia, in New Zealand, you know Earl Australia especially had early epidemic in the middle of their summer and Singapore.

They also had an epidemic right now as we speak and as their exiting summer temperature is not a panty is not guaranteed because dishes of buyers indoors and most that people would go to our indoors.

As for the second resurgence, I definitely think that in the fall win next winter it will be a definitely resurgent because we by then we will not have a vaccine ready yet for mass use.

But we will have drug by the fall.

So that is what hopefully there's resurgence.

The second wave is not as bad in the first way right now.

All right, and good news, I guess that we can look at it that way that at least we'll have some drugs by the time of a potential second wave.

Doctor Pai Golden Thank you so much for joining us again tonight.

Hi, everyone.

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