sanjay gupta joins us. sanjay, thanks so much. help us understand what kind of head trauma would this be? >> well, it -- it sounds like, you know, from -- from what they are saying there is that this was a -- probably, a bleed that occurred on top of the brain. um, subdural hematoma is one of the most common sort of scenarios here, and this is tough to talk about, don. it is tough to be so clinical about this. but, you can see what's happening there. there is a blood collection in this scenario that is on top of the brain pushing on the brain. and the thing, don, about the brain, unlike any other organ in the body, it's obviously encased in hard skull. so, it has nowhere to go, if it has this kind of pressure on it, pressure on the brain, on the brainstem. and then, ultimately, someone loses consciousness and they lose their ability to -- to breathe on their own, and they subsequently die. um, it's -- it's -- it's really -- it's sad. you know, and he was alone, it sounds like. maybe -- it may have been a pretty significant blow to

i want to bring in our chief doctor and neurosurgeon sanjay gupta. i'm so glad you're here to break this down. he's a beloved comedian, as you know. but people are also fearful and afraid of what this could mean. how likely is this to occur to other people, and how could this happen? >> yeah, i mean, it's so sad, laura. >> yes. >> certainly what has happened here. you know, i think what may have happened is that he may have had a significant blow to the head sometimes in the hotel room on the headboard of the bed or the bathtub or something, you have a significant blow. you may develop some, at the time what is slow bleeding. but the blood starts to accumulate over time. if he was in bed, went to sleep, he may have lost consciousness and that blood continued to accumulate, leading to his death. this is called a subdural hematoma, and i can show you an image of what it looks like. i don't want people to get frightened that every time they hit their head, this is going to happen. you're looking at the image there, the slow bleeding may accumulate on to

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sanjay gupta. sanjay, why would we need a fourth booster considering these studies that show the third shot does provide strong protection? >> yeah. that's a good question, wolf. i think, you know, the data is still coming in on this. we know that people started getting these boosters sort of in the fall of last year. and what they found is that with time, the effectiveness of that booster does start to wane. let me show you the numbers here. we can sort of compare what people look like with the two shots and then what happens with the third shot specifically. and what you find is that hospitalization protection goes from about 91% to 78% after four months. so you can see that that's really the concern there, that right side of the screen. also, you know, keep in mind the first people to get boosters, wolf, were people who were older, people who were at high risk of developing serious disease, people in nursing homes. so that may be the population of people who may be recommended this fourth shot.

i want to bring in our chief doctor and neurosurgeon, sanjay gupta. i'm so glad that you're here to help break this down because first of all, he's a beloved comedian as you know. >> yeah. >> but people also are very fearful and afraid of what this could possibly mean. how likely is this that it could occur to other people and how could this happen? >> it's so sad, laura, certainly what has happened here. >> yes. >> you know, i think what may have happened is he may have had a significant blow to the head. sometimes, you know, in the hotel room, on the headboard of the bed or in the bathtub or something, if you have a significant blow, you may develop some, at the time, what is sort of slow bleeding, not significant bleeding right away, but the blood starts to accumulate over time. if he was in bed, went to sleep, he may have lost consciousness, and that blood continued to accumulate, ultimately leading to his death. this is called a subdural hematoma. i don't want people to immediately get frightened that every time they hit their head, this sort of

why doesn't sanjay gupta have on dr. malone on his show? why didn't they ever have r f k junior on it are okay. junior speech is so bad, you should be able to make them look like an idiot really easily, except when the doctor from c n n. when i'm joe rogan show, he had to admit that cnn was lying about joe rogan and ivory. mm. acted. they kept saying it was a horse medicine instead of what it actually is, an essential medicine on the w h o list of essential medicines that won the nobel prize for human medicine. it's primarily a human medicine. it always was and now here they are. so if they can, i do about they can make people think that a, almost a miracle drug called i've met them, which is treated billions of people around the globe and saved lives. if they can make you think that is some kind of or space poison, they can make you think anything that can make you think the president is not demented. well, and it's interesting that you said in everything you said is exactly true. and what is sad is so many people have lost their job both

why doesn't sanjay gupta have on dr. malone on his show? why didn't they ever have r f k junior on it are okay. junior speech is so bad, you should be able to make them look like an idiot really easily, except when the doctor from cnn, when i'm joe rogan show, he had to admit that cnn was lying about joe rogan and ivory. mm. acted. they kept saying there was a horse medicine instead of what it actually is an essential medicine on the w h o list of essential medicines that won the nobel prize for human medicine it's, it's primarily a human medicine. it always was. and now here they are. so if they can, i do about they can make people think that a, almost a miracle drug called i've met them, which is treated billions of people around the globe and saved lives. if they can make you think that is some kind of or space poison, they can make you think anything that can make you think the president is not demented. well, and it's interesting that you said in everything you said is exactly true. and what is sad is so many people have lost their job

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cnn's sanjay gupta looks at a last-ditch effort on opioid addiction. it looks at brain surgery. showing this new treatment is showing some promise. >> at the age of 15, jarod was already making headlines. >> so jarod was a standout football player and he was named mr. everything. >> a football and basketball star, jarod was fielding college scholarship offers when a shoulder injury changed his whole life. >> i was prescribed oxycodone for six or seven months. by the time i was cut off, it was too late. >> i had resolved to he was going to die. that's a tough thing to come to. >> for 17 years, times were dark. troubled. things happened that jarod still can't talk about. after countless failed tries at getting sober, he found himself at west virginia university at the rockefeller neuroscience institute considering a radical, experimental treatment. >> i came home and i said, well, you know, i'm going to have brain surgery to potentially help me stay clean. >> he said they actually approached me about having brain surgery for addiction. and i literally wanted to pass out on the flo

sanjay gupta. lay this out for us, sanjay. what is it and how concerning is it? >> well, this has been a challenge, i think, as reporters trying to report on what is happening with the pandemic because the data has been so hard to sort of parse through. we have an incredible team of producers who have been doing that. but part of the challenge really, besides the fact that we haven't had enough testing, the original sin that we've talked about, the lack of leadership. so many states were sort of reporting this data. there wasn't necessarily a federal clearing house to look at that data, that made it really challenging. when kids started getting vaccinated, it took a month for the dashboard to be updated. inefficient data systems. there could be six steps between the states and the feds to determine if something was -- somebody had actually died a covid death and to have that reported. and then just significant inconsistencies overall, jake. some examples. if a single individual came back positive several times, was that three separate positives or was that one po

sanjay gupta. how is is this for kids 6 months to 4-year-olds different than 5-year-olds to 12-year-olds right now? >> well, we'll see what they end up with but it seems like it will be a lower dose. in adults it was basically 30 micrograms. that was the dose, at least with the pfizer vaccine of all three shots. 5 to 11-year-olds, they took it down to a third. and for under 5, three. for younger kids, a, they're smaller but also they generate a pretty significant immune response to these vaccines. it sounds like three micrograms is the dose they land on. >> we know that pfizer was encouraged to seek authorization for two doses instead of three doses by federal regulators. why? why not wait for more data? >> yeah. that is the question, i think, really. we've been reporting on these types of stories for a couple years now. and oftentimes it comes out like this. we haven't seen any data. we've just heard the pharmaceutical company is likely to apply for authorization. there was an add layer as you men

sanjay gupta. sanjay, why would we need a fourth booster considering the studies showing the third shot provides strong protection? >> yeah. that is a good question, wolf. the data is still coming in on this. we know people started to get the boosters in the fall of last year and they found with time the effectiveness of the booster starts to wane. let me show you the numbers and we can compare what people look like with the the two shots and then what happens with the third. what you find is that hospitalization protection goes from 91% to 78% after four months. so you can see that is really the concern there, the right side of the screen. also, you know, keep in mind the first people to get boosters are for people that are older and at high risk for developing serious disease and people in nursing homes. that may be the people that may be recommended the fourth shot. we will see. the data is incoming. one more graph comparing what it looks like between people getting two shots versus a single boo

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sanjay gupta host of cnn's "chasing life" podcast. it's no secret that what you eat affects the health of your body but there's also a lot of emerging evidence it impacts your brain. the gut is kind of like your second brain. it's called the gut brain connection. think of it like this. your gut contains roughly 39 trillion microbes, bacteria and fun fungi and viruses. break down your food and heat but others can cause inflammation. the eco-system of harmful and helpful affects your mood to your immunity. food is the message you give your body every time you eat. and think about it in the context of your microbiome, important but not that hard. one thing that helped me was keeping a food journal. not necessarily to count calories but to really note how i felt mentally, emotionally after eating certain foods. for example, i found out that fermented foods actually helped me focus. now, of course, cutting back on processed foods is important because those foods, they sort of carpet bomb your entire microbiome and introducing more vegetabl

i am no sanjay gupta. i'm just a brain surgeon. >> just a brain surgeon. clearly you're doing something right because sanjay is an incredible person and he still loves his work he does at your hospital. so let's talk about bob saget's autopsy. you have read the report. what stood out to you? >> well, first of all, thank you for having me. i must make a disclosure that i don't watch much television. probably doesn't please you, so i don't really know anything about bob saget. so what i'm speaking to is to an autopsy report that could be about any individual. but when i read that autopsy report, it really doesn't completely jive with what i have been told about the investigation and the presumed cause of death. certainly, the cause of death was a head injury. but the idea that this gentleman was in a hotel room, had a fall, went about his usual activities before going to bed, brushing his teeth or whatever and gone to bed and died is not really compatible with what i see on the autopsy report, which really suggests a very severe head injury from rather viole

sanjay gupta in this week's chasing life. >> i'm dr. sanjay gupta, host of cnn's "chasing life" podcast. how much sleep? if less than 7 hours, it wasn't enough. you already know that. the cdc says one in three adults fail to get the recommended 7 to 9 hours of sleep every night. we know a bad night sleep can make you feel cranky and unfocused but research also starting to show something else. potential long-term consequences, increasing the risk for things like alzheimer's, dementia and even early death. to understand the connection, you have to remember what sleep actually does for the brain. >> what happens is the gliosols in the brain allow for increased and accelerated flow of neural toxins and so that rushing of those toxins through the brain and excreting them out is really vital. >> no more bragging about how little sleep you require. so here's a few tips to get better shut eye. keep the temperature in your room below 70 degrees. that's going to allow you to go into deeper stages of sleep. create a routine, and stick to it. try t

sanjay gupta. sanjay, this is welcome news for a lot of parents, but it's also a little bit quirky. can you explain? >> yeah. it is because you remember last year when we talked about this, end of last yeerks we thought maybe this would be second quarter of this year, back couple weeks ago dr. fauci said this sort of authorization request may come within the next month. the first time we heard the maybe accelerated timeline. now we hear that the request at least for authorization is imminent, could happen really today, any day soon now. and if that happens, possibly by the end of the month there could be an authorized vaccine for children under the age of 5, which i know brianna you've been thinking about a lot lately. a lot of parents out there have been. there's a couple things that have been going on here. one is i want to show you the dosing first of all. when you look at the dosing for children under the age of 5 compare that with dosing for older people, they wanted to try lower doses, understandably, for these young kids and wanted to get the right number of doses as well. wh

sanjay gupta. sanjay, i think this was surprise to go a lot of people. what does this autopsy report reveal? >> i think what it reveals more than anything else is this was not a simple bump on the head. i think a couple of days ago what we had heard is that he, mr. saget, may have bumped his head as he was getting into bed at his hotel room, and that subsequently caused a bleeding on his brain. when you read this autopsy report, that may be the case but it was a significant blow to the head. just to give you an idea. in yellow of all the bones that were fractured. it takes a lot of force to do that. let me show you on this skull model. there were fractures here and also an abrasion over here. clearly, there was some sort of, you know, impact over here. that fracture extended into the right temporal bone over here. that was a hard blow to do that. what was noted is there were skull fractures in the front of his skull over here as well just above his eyes. in order to do that, when i first saw this, if i knew nothing else about what happened, you would thi

sanjay gupta the author of "world war c." sanjay, this is the first time you've been with us since governors started announcing their plans to lift mask mandates. what do you think of them especially since dr. walensky said we're not there yet? >> there's a lot of virus out there still. the idea of thinking about this like the weather. it's still raining a lot of virus out there. part of the cdc projections they still think over the next four weeks 64,000 people could die. these are still just tragic numbers. at the same time the numbers are coming down, and we know omicron is not as -- not as deadly. it doesn't make people as sick as these previous variants. let me show you quickly, john, oregon. this is one of the states where they're talking about rolling back these mask mandates at some point soon. you can see if you see previously what happened sort of middle of june of last year they lifted mandates, and, you know, pretty soon after that the delta surge and sort of straight up the numbers went, and they reinstated manda

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here he is talking to sanjay gupta from cnn. >> you had it and have not got and shot of the vaccine. >> i have better immunity than i would have the vaccine. >> i'm glad you are better. >> i here this talk of go and get vaccinated. why isn't there you have got to take care of your body. it's the front line, not just for covid, but the front line defense for everything that -- t ail the us. brian: they never recognize natural immunity. >> they believe working class americans should listen to everything they say even though they have so much contempt for them. brian: news week is lucky to have you. coming up. get ready to cue the music, start the clock. the fighters are in their corner. carley shimkus, report for duty. here she is, she is ready to take me on. brian: now it's time for the news duel. these are the hottest stories, everyone is talk about but didn't make the top five. >> i'm so excited to be here. brian: let's get going. drop dead gorgeous women advertising for a funeral in moscow. they are basically hookers. this 29-year-old social media manager came up with the idea. her

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gupta and dr. peter hotel. i mean, like you said, you did this just basically people go there is this one thing that you talk about that i don't like. maybe i don't like you as a person because i don't like m m a or i don't like your comedy or i don't like whatever. but to me he's always just seemed like, and i say this with all due respect to him, a curious idiot. he likes to ask the question, i like to get down to things. so it feels like they're just responding to the bad and never looking at what he might be looking at. that was fair. he was getting too big for his britches, roomy, ask me, just go back a couple of things or isn't it funny that nobody will ever ask, you know, snoop dog or somebody to take down songs about killing the police? let me ask you something. have you ever heard anybody suggest that maybe we should go back and threatened to remove people who still perpetuate the russian collusion? fraud. you see it's a selective form of misinformation, misinformation, dis, information. d

gupta and dr. peter hotel, i mean like you said, this is just basically people go there is this one thing that you talk about that i don't like. maybe i don't like you as a person because i don't like m m a or i don't like your comedy or i don't like whatever. but to me he's always just seemed like, and i say this with all due respect to him, a curious idiot. he likes to ask the question, i like to get down to the thing. so it feels like they're just responding to the bad and never looking at what he might be looking at. that was fair. he was getting too big for his britches. really ask me just go back a couple of things or isn't it funny that nobody will ever ask, you know, snoop dog or somebody to take down songs about killing the police? let me ask you something. have you ever heard anybody suggest that maybe we should go back and threatened to remove people who still perpetuate the russian collusion fraud. you see it's a selective form of misinformation, misinformation, dis, information. dad, i

gupta and dr. peter hotel. i mean, like you said it is this just basically people go there is this one thing that you talk about that i don't like. maybe i don't like you as a person because i don't like m m a or i don't like your comedy or i don't like whatever. but to me he's always just seemed like, and i say this with all due respect to him, a curious idiot. he likes to ask the question, i like to get down to things. so it feels like they're just responding to the bad and never looking at what he might be looking at. that was fair. he was getting too big for his britches, really. i said me just go back a couple of things or isn't it funny that nobody will ever ask, you know, snoop dog or somebody to take down songs about killing the police? let me ask you something. have you ever heard anybody suggest that maybe we should go back and threatened to remove people who still perpetuate the russian collusion? fraud. you see it's a selective form of misinformation, misinformation, dis, information. d

here he is talking to sanjay gupta from cnn. >> you had it and have not got and shot of the vaccine. >> i have better immunity than i would have the vaccine. >> i'm glad you are better. >> i here this talk of go and get vaccinated. why isn't there you have got to take care of your body. it's the front line, not just for covid, but the front line defense for everything that -- t ail the us. brian: they never recognize natural immunity. >> they believe working class americans should listen to everything they say even though they have so much contempt for them. brian: news week is lucky to have you. coming up. get ready to cue the music, start the clock. the fighters are in their corner. carley shimkus, report for duty. here she is, she is ready to take me on. as a business owner, your bottom line is always top of mind. so start saving by switching to the mobile service designed for small business: comcast business mobile. flexible data plans mean you can get unlimited data or pay by the gig. all on the most reliable nationwide network. with no line activation fees or term contracts...

gupta and dr. peter hotel, i mean like you said, this is just basically people go there is this one thing that you talk about that i don't like. maybe i don't like you as a person because i don't like m m a or i don't like your comedy or i don't like whatever. but to me he's always just seemed like, and i say this with all due respect to him, a curious idiot. he likes to ask the question, i like to get down to things. so it feels like they're just responding to the bad and never looking at what he might be looking at. that was fair. he was getting too big for his britches, roomy, i. so let me just go back. a couple of things are, isn't it funny that nobody will ever ask, you know, snoop dog or somebody to take down songs about killing the police? let me ask you something. have you ever heard anybody suggest that maybe we should go back and threatened to remove people who still perpetuate the russian collusion? fraud. you see it's a selective form of misinformation, misinformation, dis, information.

gupta and dr. peter hotel. i mean, like you said, this is just basically people go there is this one thing that you talk about that i don't like. maybe i don't like you as a person because i don't like m m a or i don't like your comedy or i don't like whatever. but to me he's always just seemed like, and i say this with all due respect to him, a curious idiot. he likes to ask the question, i like to get down to things. so it feels like they're just responding to the bad and never looking at what he might be looking at. that was fair. he was getting too big for his britches, really asking me just go back a couple of things or isn't it funny that nobody will ever ask, you know, snoop dog or somebody to take down songs about killing the police? let me ask you something. have you ever heard anybody suggest that maybe we should go back and threatened to remove people who still perpetuate the russian collusion? fraud. you see it's a selective form of misinformation, misinformation, dis, information. dad,

hey, what 1st of all, joe rogan brought sanjay gupta on for 3 hours. i guess that's not enough. when was the last time cnn brought somebody from joe rogan show their channels? that's the problem. they won't have me on their shows. they won't have dr. malone on. they won't have on anybody from the great barrington declarations which is proven to be correct and found she was proven to be wrong allowed and what she did smear them into mainstream news publications. so here we are again, nobody should be the arbiter of the truth at the back. the answer for bad speech is good speech, but joe rogan doesn't lie to anybody. that's why joe roland gets 11000000 views for podcast, while cnn can't cracked a 1000000. why? because no one trusty and then they've been lied to by seen. and 1st of all, for 5 street years, we were told that our president was a traitor and a russian, which was completely made up. there was an evidence free conspiracy theory. so who's going to go and censor them by the way, the people who should be censored are the one getting all their money from big farm on the mil

sanjay gupta spoke with don lemon. >> there was an abrasion on the back of his head and a fracture in the back of his head. it extended along the right side of his head but then he also had fractures on the front just above his eyes as well, the orbital rims. the skull, so you imagine this. somebody falls, they hit here. abrasion over here. significant blow, falls down, significant blow. fracture extends into the right side over here. that's all possible from one mechanism. fractures in the front above the eyes. if i didn't know anything about this i would say is this someone who was unrestrained in a car accident? is this someone who fell down a flight of stairs? >> the autopsy shows saget was positive for covid-19 and had an enlarged heart. >>> it is day seven of the beijing winter olympics. his first name translates to walk the way. for shaun white it was not to be. he failed to mount a finishing fourth in what he said will be his last olympics. we are covering this. right now we want to go to china where coy wire is standing by. coy, disappointing news for shaun white and perhaps

sanjay gupta has more. >> at the age of 15, jared was already making headlines. >> he was a standout football player and he was named mr. everything. >> a football and basketball star, jared was fielding college scholarship offers when a shoulder injury changed his whole life. >> i was prescribed oxycodone for six to seven months, and by the time i was cut off, it was too late. >> he was going to die. and that's a tough thing to come to. >> reporter: for 17 years, times were dark, troubled. things happened that jared still can't talk about. after countless failed tries at getting sober, jared found himself at west virginia university at the rockefeller neuroscience institute, considering a radical experimental treatment. >> i came home and i said, well, i'm going to have brain surgery to potentially help me stay clean. >> they actually approached me about having brain surgery for addiction, and i literally wanted to pass out on the floor. >> are you freaking crazy? that's your brain. >> reporter: there is no data. you were the first. >> what got me through it is when i did my researc

sanjay gupta here with that. sanjay, what about the injuries of bob saget? >> with these types of injuries, you want to figure out if there is a mechanism of injury you can really identify and also the energy of the force of the injury. so, you know, mechanisms, car accidents, falls, things like that is what we typically think of. but then also how significant? if it was a car accident, how fast was the car going? if it was a fall, how far did he fall? these are things we don't know the answers to, but when you look at these findings, as randi pointed out, these are signi significant. this wasn't a more isolated or casual bump of the head, this was something that involved several different fractures. it takes a lot of force to actually cause these sorts of fractures. we can show you graphics. we put this together, john, to give you an idea of the different bones that were overall fractured in this graphic. it was the back of the head -- i'll show you on the skull model here -- it was the back of the head here, the fracture, and then it sort of extended into

sanjay gupta walks us through what may have happened. >> that's the first thing i think of. it's sad. it's quite possible, plausible mechanism that someone would hit their head significantly enough to cause bleeding either right on top of the brain or between the layers, either a subdural sort of hematoma. i can show you an image of what this looks like but basically what happens is in this situation, it's sad. it's sad to talk about this. some of the veins that are on top of the brain, they can tear as a result of that head trauma. hitting your head pretty forcibly on something when you may say that really hurt. if i were in a different situation, i'd go get it checked out. instead it sounds like he went to sleep thinking it was not that serious. that's what i read in that statement. that bleeding accumulates over the next several hours and someone loses consciousness and subsequently they die. he was alone so obviously no one checking in on him. it's just it's an unusual situation a little bit the way that it's sort of been outlined. it's pretty tragic t. can happen just t

sanjay gupta said if you bump other part of the body there's swelling and your body can fix it. your head is encased in a hard shell. if you are at home and you become p your head, what should you look out for? it looks as though he decided to go to sleep. maybe he had a headache. we won't ever know. what should somebody look out for? >> yeah, i think that's a great question. look if they're having a worsening headache? do they have confusion? nausea, vomiting, those types of things. bob saget was alone in the hotel room. he had no one looking out for him. those are the things that we would say, if you have those and you have the severe blow to the head, you want to get to a trauma center so you can be evaluated as quickly as possible. >> very good advice. dr. joseph saccrin, thank you so much this morning. >> thanks sovereign for having me. >>> up next for you, the biden plan for fighting inflation. >>> and how this year's super bowl halftime will make history. . what about rob's dry cough? works on t that too, and lasts 12 hours. 12 hours?! who studies that long?g? mucinex dm

sanjay gupta joins us. how does this differ? >> it's a lower dose. they anticipated it would do the trick, you want to use the lowest possible dose to get the same immune response. they're testing a 3 microgram dose. 5 to 11-year-olds, a 30 microgram dose. so this is a tenth of what people who got pfizer got. and for all three shots. this is what they sort of landed on. what they're still sort of trying to figure out, the number of doses, though. >> what do you make of -- so, the number of doses, that is still not clear? do they get that -- do they figure that out before they gave the emergency use authorization? >> it's a little quirky. last we heard, 6 months to 24 months, it generated a good response. but between 2 and 5, it did not do that. that's what we heard end of last year. now we're hearing that pfizer will submit the emergency use authorization for the two doses. maybe they're counting on the fact that a third dose will get enough of an immune response, and they don't want to slow things down. they want to get the emergency use authorizati

let's bring in our chief medical correspondent, sanjay gupta. new covid cases are down 42%. hospitalizations are down 20% from last week. covid deaths are up a bit. up 3% in the last week. yet we have this growing list of states planning to drop mask mandates in the coming weeksful are these decisions happening in spots where covid is less of a problem? >> in some cases they are. you have to keep in mind, jake, that the entire country is still really falling into this category of high transmission. there's still a lot of virus out there. that's true. and at the same time, the numbers are coming down. as alexander was just talking about. you have two of these happening at the same time. so people are trying to project what the next few weeks will look like. and using lots of date. a oregon is one of the states you mentioned. let me show you what happened in oregon. they've gone through this before. if you look back right in the middle of june there, you will see that's when the mandates for masks were lifted at that point and you had a significant peak. some of that because o

chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta is here. i remember when we passed 100,000 and how calamitous that was and our next milestone will be a million. >> yeah. these numbers in the beginning of the pandemic, we talked about the possibility the numbers could be here. prepare for the worst. hope for the best. these are tragic numbers. even if you go back and look at 1918. now, granted, the population of the world was about there'd of what it is today. but that was a time when we did not have vaccines or intensive care units the way that we do. the technology of today's medical system and we've surpassed those death rates from that time period. it is tough to say over and over again. people don't like to hear it. especially those who have lost loved ones. but so many of these deaths preventible, certainly since the vaccine came out. >> a world health organization official is forecasting a quote, plausible end game to the pandemic in europe because. deaths matplateauing there. is the u.s. in the same boat? >> yeah. very similar. we ca

sanjay gupta here with that. so, sanjay, what about those questions and the extent of bob saget's injuries? >> well, you know, when we look at these -- these types of injuries, i mean, you want to figure out if there is a m mechanism of injury that you can really identify and also the energy of the force of the injury. so, you know, mechanisms. car accidents, falls, things like that are what we typically think of. but then, also, how significant? if it was a car accident, how fact was the car going? if someone fell, how far did they fall? these are the sorts of things that we, you know, still don't know the answers to but when you look at these findings, as randi pointed out, um, these -- these were significant. this wasn't sort of a -- a -- a sort of more isolated or more casual bump of the head. this was something that involved several different fractures, and that takes a lot of force to actually cause these sorts of fractures. so we can show you graphics. we put this together, john, to just give you an idea o

sanjay gupta and dr. stanford, from the black doctor's consortium and a cnn hero for her pandemic work if communities of color. sanjay, is now the right time for all these states to lift their mask mandates? >> washington, there is still a lot of virus out there. we are being showered in viruses. you heard from the cdc director. most is high or substantial transmission. 61,000 people forecasted still to die amazingly over the next four weeks. these are still very high numbers. but at the same time, you heard from alessandra, the numbers are coming down. we seen the effectiveness of the vaccine overall. the big question, is how do you make the decision? let me show you oregon, for example, i don't know if we have this trajectory of what happened in oregon. just to give you an idea. people are trying to project ahead, you see mid-june time is when they sort of lifted some of the mask mandates at that time, this is last year. and you know the surge happened. the numbers ran up. they had to reinstate the mask

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he's tough on sanjay gupta. that's okay. it is great to have different opinions, it is not great to put out incorrect facts. there is a difference. there is still is no matter how you slice it. >> what do you think neil young saying spotify should ban joe rogan. >> i think that's fine. they didn't like this bad information and so they were acting in their ability and they gave him quite a bit, neil young and tony mitchell and several others. that's within their rights and it is very common. you saw what happened at fox news when goldberg protested tucker carlson, it happens in media all the time. this is a media company. it should not be protected as a tech platform. it should not be protected by section 230 if they are making contents like cnn is. >> you said on twitter spotify can't pretend it is a platform when it is a media company, what's the difference? >> well, it is both actually. it is a media company because they did a deal. they make podcasts and gotten deep in the podcast business. section 230 gives tech platform

sanjay gupta. does the science, the medicine line up with the politics here, sanjay? >> well, i mean, you know, we have seen this before. the numbers are heading in the right direction. it is a question of sort of when do you sort of take your foot off the accelerator in terms of mitigation strategies. if you do it too early, we have seen what might happen in the past, where you start to plateau and the numbers start to go up. i think the truest measure, you know, as we have been talking about this for a couple of years is hospitalizations. so if you look at hospitalizations in the uk, they are trending in the right direction. you see that on the right side of the screen, they're going down. but, you know, they're still pretty high. if you do the measures, in particular the testing, not making testing more voluntary, not requiring self-isolation, you run into the risk of plateauing and potentially, you know, making it really challenging for people who have not been able to get vaccinated in particular. if you compare vaccinated versus unvaccinated, this story remained

he was pretty tough on sanjay gupta. so what? that is okay. he should do that as an interviewer. it's just, he doesn't do it quite the same with those who are saying some things that are not true. and so, it's great to have different opinions. it's not great to put out incorrect facts and there is a difference. there still is, no matter how you slice it. >> when -- what did you think of neil young and others who said that spotify should ban joe rogan? >> i thought that was fine. they didn't like what they saw, and just moved off the platform. they expressed an opinion, they didn't like it, and and just what i am saying, they didn't like this bad information and so they were acting in their ability. and they gave up quite a bit. neil young did. joni mitchell and several others. and so, i think that's within their rights. it's very common that this happens also at media companies. you saw it happening over at fox news when jona goldberg protested tucker carlson. it happens in media all the time and we have to keep in mind this is a media company. it shouldn't be protected as a tech

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sanjay gupta. brains had his business. he bumped his head on something and died from it. how can that happen? >> it is sad. an unusual situation in terms of what happened specifically to him. he was alone. had this pretty significant blow to the head but did not think anything of it, as you mentioned. but people can develop collections of blood on top of the brain in the form of, for example, what's known as a subdural hematoma. i will show you an image of that. what authorities found, sometimes you can have little veins that tear and blood starts to accumulate. you wouldn't know it at the time. you would feel the blow to the head. you would think, i'm okay. fell backwards, maybe hit it on the back of the head board or in the bathroom. but over time blood starts to accumulate. it puts pressure on the brain, including the brain stem. someone may lose consciousness, lose their ability to breathe on their own. if they're by themselves, nobody is keeping an eye on them. somebody like this comes to the hospital. typically the goal is to basically decompress the brain so the br

sanjay gupta and the cnn s correspondenton. ai there was no fair balancehe there. he parodied the talking point that our head of the national allergy and immunology branch perrottet, they said that there. was no data for ivermectin. or they said itse was a horse dewormer now either they knew or they should have known the 63 supportive studies and of the over 30 randomized trials. so those are facts. and if you think the wrong tellp us how they're wrong. but why shouldn't people hear that ? why shouldn't they be allowed to? well, because dr. peter mccullough certainly has the credentials to do it. criticize the people in charge . he mocks f cnng for ignoring dozens of clinical trials, making fun of a drug that could have helped a lot of people possibly save lives. what do you think of that ? well, that's immoral, ofmm course. but noticef what you didn't do in the face of that information. he didn't call for cnn to be t censored because they spread disinformation. so we got to pull cnn. off the air. they're killing people because he's not for censorship used c for ce

sanjay gupta going to say one thing. isn't it nice to make a decision about your body listening to various different opinions? >> steve: sure. is he making these comments on a podcast with the platform called spotify which is a private business. they can do whatever they want. >> ainsley: true. >> steve: that's why there are all these artists, a number of artists who have said the ultimatum is from neil young. either neil young or joe rogan. well, it was an easy -- it was an easy pick for spotify because mr. rogan has got 11 million listeners. and spotify's music side isn't making as much money. rogan and his podcast are a cash machine, revenue for the podcast up 627%. and that is good news for free speech. ultimately, it's a business decision. and in this case, the fella who runs the company, daniel is going with what's making him money right now. the big question is if taylor swift and madonna and everybody starts pulling the plug, we then change and say okay, we are going to have to do something different. right now h

if you watched joe rogan interview with sanjay gupta, he doesn't always have what some people consider quacks. dr. malone is not a quack. i think we're demonizing, formally respected people in the medical community because they have a different opinion. so, you know, it is right. the emails what fauci showed that they saw this was engineered when he talked to a bunch of scientists when it first came out and he squashed it. but he didn't know that this was possibly an engineered virus. you know, when there are things like that out there, it is going to cause suspicion whether you're educated. i don't care, you could be highly educated and still be a little suspicious. and as far as polio vaccines. >> i'll stop you there because it goes further than what we're talking about. margaret is next up in texas. she says, no, views haven't changed. margaret, hello. >> no, i haven't changed. i'm a critical thinker which means i believe in science. all of these people around who lived within the results of science and they, like driving their cars, they don't think critically about it. you don't h