Hundreds of thousands of lives, impacted millions of people and done deep damage to the world economy. We must be frank about one of the primary reasons this outbreak spun out of control. It was a failure by this organization to obtain the information that the world needed. That failure cost many lives. Assistance the provided by our friends and we have been proud to allocate over 9 billion that will benefit the global covid19 response, including more than half 1 billion in planned investments four ministry to support of the most at risk countries. Risk of the most at countries. These successes and the transparent way in which we share them will benefit the whole world. Be operations must transparent as well. We support independent review of every aspect of who response to the pandemic. We all must come together to ensure that the who fulfills its key mandate and that Member States comply with the International Health regulations. In an apparent attempt to conceal this outbreak, at least one member state made a mockery of their transparency obligations with tremendous costs for the entire world. We saw the who failed at its core mission of information sharing and transparency when Member States do not act in good faith. This cannot ever happen again. The status quo is intolerable. The who must change and it must become far more transparent and far more accountable. It is also critical that taiwan participate as an observer at the wha to bring you helpful perspective regarding their exemplary response. Fromho barred taiwan participation in 2016 just a few months after the free and fair elections. With the help of 23 million of 23ese the Health Million taiwanese people should not be sacrificed to send a message. We need a more effective who right now to help win this fight and demonstrate to our citizens that we are working to prevent such catastrophes in the future. The United States send our best witches and offer open cooperation to each of you in our shared efforts to defeat this epidemic and protect the health of each nation around the world. Today forn up cspans newsletter word for word, providing new updates daily to the coronavirus Pandemic Response from state governors, the White House Task force briefings and important updates from congress, sign up today. It is easy. Go to cspan. Org connect and enter your email in the word for word sign up box. Cspans washington journal, live, every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up on tuesday morning, the center for law and social policiess olivia is discussing the impact that coronavirus is having on lowwage workers. Then french hill talks about the federal response to the covid19 pandemic and oversight of the federal funds needed to deal with it. And then how the department of Veterans Affairs is handling the coronavirus. Watch cspans washington journal, live at 7 00 eastern, join the discussion. Over the weekend, former president barack obama spoke about the coronavirus pandemic while addressing the graduates of historically black colleges and universities during the virtual commencement vi