Good morning and welcome to Washington Post live i am eugene scott a political reporter of the Washington Post and i would like to welcome our first guest this morning assistant Health Secretary at hhs and a member of president Trumps Coronavirus Task force admiral brett, thank you so much for joining me. Good morning it is great to be here with you this morning, thank you for the invitation. I got that correct right. I am from deep down in louisiana and thats pretty darn close, that is a great first try at that. Great, admiral you the white house and lead developer of the hhs wire Public Health policy recommendation so i was hoping you could give us an overview of the Current Situation on the ground today. The situation on the ground with the pandemic, i think everyone understands that similar to where we were post memorial day, we had a significant increase in the number of cases, the hospitalizations are starting to go up as well and we do however, know how to defeat the pandemic to
Thank you for joining me for covid19 and a responsible rx supply chain, a look at the prescription chain during a global pandemic. Id like to thank our sponsor the Health Distribution alliance for support of todays program. The pandemic has upended our lives and forced a new normal upon us. While accommodations can be made for our lifestyle choices theres little likability when it comes to our healthcare. When patients for chronic diseases have access to regular medication it isnt a choice and in some cases its amatter of life and death. Both the Healthcare System and patients have changed their behaviors. As a consequence concerns and fears have arisen surrounding drug availability and shortages. What are stakeholders doing to ensure disruptions do not occur and theres collaboration between the public and private sectors and what plans are being put in place for distribution of this corona vaccine once it becomesavailable . We discuss all of this with some of thesmartest minds in Heal
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This is just over one hour. Hello and welcome i am editor at the hill, thank you for joining us for covid19 and a responsible rx supply chain, or Virtual Event looking at the resiliency of the Prescription Drug supply chain during a Global Pandemic. Id like to thank our sponsors the Healthcare Distribution Alliance for their support of todays program, the coronavirus pandemic has upended our lives and forced a new normal upon us, what accommodations can be made for lifestyle choices but little flexible lead to health care, patients with chronic disease and those most at risk from the coronavirus access to regular medication is in the choice and matter of life and death in a pandemic the Healthcare System and patients have changed their behaviors, as a consequence in concerns of drug availability and shortages, what are stakeholders doing to ensure the disruptions do not occur in collaboration between the public and the private sectors, what plans are being put in place for the distribu
On the day could be the reemerging trade war between the u. S. And china, china saying it will slaps sanctions on defense contractors. On this we have greens and other commodities lower, along with stocks. The chip index is a poster boy for the u. S. China trade war that is underperforming, down 2. 5 . That is another nuance developing, as if we needed more. Guy talk to us about david talk to us about the bonds. Last week we were talking about the reflation trade. We saw the 10 year goa above 85 basis points. Now i see it below 80. What happened to that trade . Abigail that is the bid for bonds. That tells you some traders are nervous. They are hedging around not just today but last week. That is why we had bond selloff last week. The yield curve steepen spirit we had stocks down. The nasdaq 100 down for the first time in five weeks. Todays trading action is a continuation of what we did have last week, and it is interesting. Another piece you and i were talking about last friday was t