After covid19 vaccine. We are going to be talking in particular of an Innovative New model to try to address the issues around how to encourage accelerated research and development of important vaccine candidates, but also, how they can produced and distributed in ways that take an International Perspective and a perspective of equity and a Public Healthdriven distribution approach. So, were going to be talking a lot about the covax and theres a slide for the audience to get more grounded in what is covax. Its the vaccine pillar of something called the act accelerator to speed up access to diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines. There are three elements of the necessary tools for an effective medical and Public Health response. This was launched in april and it was really launched as a collaboration of both government, importantly including the European Union and their president , but also philanthropy and not for profit organizations coming together, recognizing this critical need as
We established the commission in 2018, it is extending its work in the midst of the intimate through the fall of 2022. These issues are central to the work. We are undertaking. Peggy, one of our commissioners, will be presiding. She recently stepped down from the National Academy of medicine, and was the president of the American Association for the advancement of science, and the former fda commissioner, and former Health Commissioner for the city of new york. We published an analysis that is a companion to this event. S it possible to avert chaos in the vaccine scramble . It is available at csis. Org. The proposition is nationalism dominates the scramble for vaccines. And there is a certain highrisk that low Income Countries will be left out, subject to great delay and uncertainty commander this will have destabilizing consequences. Paper have in our examined operation warp speed, what china is up to, and we have put focus on a Promising Initiative that we will hear about in a moment
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Needed theres nothing there that would inhibit us from going on a larger trials and theyre currently hoppity longer more and deadlier pandemic. Also coming up tonight teachers in south africa say their schools are becoming breeding grounds for the coronavirus and they blame corruption that they say existed before their students were even born theres no follow up theres no theyve been meeting for their weapon that is that in our institutions. To give people to go they do it their way it can bend as no one call chronos the aft that wants to change the way that everything was done. Before they. Let you our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with what could be the twilight of transparency in americas battle against the coronavirus on tuesday. The u. S. Reported 67000. 00 new cases of the virus thats the highest daily figure yet the death toll in the country is moving towards 140006. 00 hospitals in Miami Florida are now filled to the
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