Partnership with the new england journal of massachusetts. Here we are days away from the close of 2020 and we are at an inflection point. While the news around vaccines are promising the daytoday headlines are as grim as they have ever been. An american is dying of covid19 every 90 seconds and we have recorded 4 million new covid19 cases in november and more than 1 million cases in december just nine days into this month. Covid19 has just passed Heart Disease as the number one killer of americans. As of this morning more than 286,000 americans have died due to covid19 and in just one day, just one day yesterday, we lost 2600 of our fellow americans to covid19. To put those numbers into context we are experiencing a tragedy on the scale of pearl harbor every single day, right here at home. From an Economic Security standpoint we are facing the greatest threat to Value Creation since world war ii. If there were ever any doubt about the seriousness of this virus these facts should cast t
Cause of the israeli Prime Minister to step down a growing louder for a 3rd week in a row thousands of demonstrators have gathered outside Benjamin Netanyahu official residence demanding his resignation is the biggest protest in israel for a decade theres frustration at the governments handling of in corona Virus Outbreak plus growing anger that netanyahu is still in power while facing corruption charges that hes forced out the protesters early on sunday are a force that reports out from western. Its becoming a saturday night ritual in the square close to Benjamin Netanyahu official residence early evening in the policeman increasingly robust barricades by the protesters renew their demand that netanyahu leave office the socalled black Flag Movement has long insisted that a Prime Minister on trial for alleged corruption must step down they say the pandemic has brought new supporters to the. Was folded just like gave us all a flap in the face and made us wake up to the reality that. Not
Administration and was reappointed by President Trump. In addition he most recent was given the prize for his involvement in spiritual matters involving scientific matters and will talk about that in a moment. If i could talk to dr. Collins first. Dr. Collins, you just over the human genome which is a complicated project and it involved thousands of scientists, in a was amounts of effort over many, many years. Was the pressure to get the human genome discovered, how to compare that with depression of dealing with this coronavirus . Which was greater and how do you accept the challenges of that project versus this project or effort . David, thanks for starting us off this way. Hello to everybody. Natanz plate of a chance to have an interview with david. I look for to the days its nice to have that conversation again. The human genome project was an intensely competitive effort and were trying to the dna instruction, effort that took 15 years and we want to beat that date and we ultimate
Lets leave it this way. All right. David i dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Were here today with dr. Anthony, also tony, fauci, who is the director of the allergy and Infectious Disease institute of the National Institutes of Dutch Institute for institute for health, which he has led since 1984, 35 years. Thats a pretty long time to be leading the institute at nih. Is that a record . Dr. Fauci it is, indeed. It is. David you havent gotten tired of doing this for 35 years . Dr. Fauci no, because things keep changing. We get new Infectious Diseases, new outbreaks, new challenges. So its almost like a different job every year or two. David i always worried about getting a flu. So if i want to avoid catching the flu, should i take a flu shot . Dr. Fauci y
Also to those that are joining us this morning the director of the Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Human Development and the subcommittee on health and education services. Doctor fauci director of National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases. And then the director of the National Cancer institute and director of the National Institute on drug abuse. Again, welcome to all of you leader hoyer asked me this morning you have the nih coming he said can you get all the Institute Directors and he said he will this is one of the most remarkable hearings that we have and we thank you for the great work that we loan that you do and saving lives the people of the great country. Let me touch on the matter of the coronavirus i just want to say i thank you to the director and all the institute tends particular thank you to doctor fauci i want to say Public Health experts deserve our praise for what is the excellent work that you are doing and clearly a matter of National Importance an