Think about, you know, possible strategies for moving forward. There is one piece of good news that ill mention, that in the recent appropriations package to talk about threats to Global Health could not be more timely. I am pleased to convene the meeting. Welcome to the council on Foreign Relations meeting. I am frances townsend, the executive Vice President of Worldwide Affairs at mcandrews inc. And i will be presiding over todays discussion. I will have the privilege of leading the conversation for 30 minutes, then i will open it up to questions and answers. We will end at 1 30 p. M. These gentlemen are very busy, as you can imagine, dealing with the coronavirus. By looking back , emergingast decade Infectious Diseases played a recurring and ominous theme, be it ebola, the zika virus, and now the novel coronavirus. The threat is not dissipating. When it comes to nondisease natural disasters the stafford act provides funds to enable Immediate Response by and by comparison there are s