Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Overnight, tens of thousands of people in california were placed under new lockdown orders. Across the u. S. Yesterday, there were 175,000 coronavirus cases according to Johns Hopkins university. Since the start of december, there have been more than a million cases in this country. There are currently a record 100,000 patients 100,000 patients hospitalized. A new round of lockdowns in most populated states. Debra, we are talking about california. What are some of the new restrictions that are going into effect there . It is a stayathome order, annemarie green. That means people need to stay at home as much as possible. If you do leave, they are asking you to wear a mask 100 of the time. There are restrictions on businesses and all until after christmas. Much of california is under a stayathome order for the next three weeks to slow the spread of the coronavirus. These patients are not going to just stop coming. The measure closes
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I thought it was and i originally set out the title of early treatments for covid essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic would be politicized and this is a tragedy that it was paid from the start i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response and we are facing a new virus that caused an entirely new disease. No one wanted to under react and as a result i fear the tendency would be to overreact and create Unrealistic Expectations regarding our ability to stop a highly contagious pathogen. The challenges facing us were daunting and our National Strategic stockpile have been reduced during the h1n1 pandemic and had not been replenished. It took time to develop reliable tests and even more time to Scale Production to meet the demand. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibited no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I have tried not to criticize the electe
I thought it was and i originally set out the title of early treatments for covid essential component of a covid solution. It was inevitable was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic would be politicized and this is a tragedy that it was paid from the start i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response and we are facing a new virus that caused an entirely new disease. No one wanted to under react and as a result i fear the tendency would be to overreact and create Unrealistic Expectations regarding our ability to stop a highly contagious pathogen. The challenges facing us were daunting and our National Strategic stockpile have been reduced during the h1n1 pandemic and had not been replenished. It took time to develop reliable tests and even more time to Scale Production to meet the demand. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibited no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I have tried not to criticize the electe
Thank you for joining us. Guest thank you for having me. Host a little bit about your work at the Vaccine Access center, talk about that and in the international aspect. Guest yes, so the international Vaccine Access doctor william moss the executive director of the international Vaccine Access center and a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Doctor moss thank you for joining us today. A little bit of your work at the Vaccine Access center with the international aspecth. We celebrated our tenth anniversary in the last year and the main focus is to increase access to lifesaving vaccines. Traditionally focused on childhood vaccines particularly to make sure there is access in africa and asia and they are reaching the most vulnerable. But also we have been very involved in thinking about covid19cu Covid Vaccine and how we ensure the safety and efficacy with equitable distribution around thehe world. Host how does that apply to the current efforts with coronavirus