Susan richard horton, editor of the medical journal the lancet, you published a book, and you wrote the virus that caused covid19 is not going away. It will be with us for a long time to come. The best we can hope for is peaceful coexistence. What does that look like . Dr. Horton it means negotiating a relationship with the virus, if i can put it like that. When covid19 hit, countries locked down. The only way to cut viral transmission was to stay at home, stop social mixing, implement physical distancing and so on. That is fine in the short term. It can extinguish the outbreak, but it is not a longterm solution. It is not possible to live life like that. By peaceful coexistence, i mean we have to renegotiate our relationship with the virus, which means we need to leave our homes, go to work, send children to school. We have to do it in a way that minimizes the risks to those who are most at risk of covid19. That means we have to live sidebyside with this virus as we live sidebyside wi
Council, this is 30 minutes. It is wonderful to have this opportunity it is wonderful to have this opportunity at the time of the alliance is facing a large array of challenges from china to cyberattacks and Climate Change and the pandemic what we need to make today is ensure there will be relevant and effective over the coming decade. And then to begin from the secretaryg general. Working with the alliance for securing democracy will moderate a conversation with the secretarygeneral. At a time when we are looking for leadership where the secretary general is my pleasure to welcome the secretarygeneral to the stage. Mr. Secretarygeneral over to you. Good afternoon from brussels and good morning and welcome to all of those on the line. Asking me to make the Strong Alliance even stronger. To make sure we are affected and then to tackle the challenge challenges, and it is our opportunity where we see the reliance ten years from now and how that will continue in a more uncertain world. I a
Data on industrial output offers signs of encouragement. Shares in gilead jumped in late trade on positive reports on a coronavirus drug. Openg source on plans to factories in seattle. We hear from the ceo of rival airbus. We are seeing a lot of positive sentiment across the markets today. Investors seeming to be looking to the data we got out of china. Not really a surprise we got that drop in firstquarter gdp. The big question remains if Consumer Confidence can come back as the lockdown starts to ease. Speaking of that, it is u. S. Esting, you will see futures. The question remains well investors start to see that as a move to early that could reawaken the risk of a new wave of infections. The market fairly positive. The european futures on the front foot as well. 10year treasury yields moving higher by four basis points. You are seeing dollar weakness across all g10. Some of those Commodity Currencies weaker. Oil anguish and, just before 24 a barrel. President trump has unveiled gui
Coronavirus story this week were examining the unprecedented rise in the surveillance and tracking of citizens and the long term implications for society will also look at the United States and its problem with dissin from a ship much of which comes from the very top the white house and President Trump. In the worldwide battle against covert 19 more and more governments are looking at our phones to track the infected and to prevent the virus from spreading china south korea israel italy and others are using phone Location Software along with c. C. T. V. Video and credit card records among other tools to do that governments are understandably eager to use every weapon at their disposal in this fight and phone tracking is already proven effective in some places such as china but these measures come with all kinds of questions on. Finding the right balance between the need for Public Safety and the individuals right to privacy another question worth asking how long to the authorities inte
Coronavirus story this week were examining the unprecedented rise in the surveillance and tracking of citizens and the long term implications for society will also look at the United States and its problem with just information much of which comes from the very top the white house and president trying. In the worldwide battle against covert 19 more and more governments are looking at our phones to track the infected and to prevent the virus from spreading china south korea israel italy and others are using phone Location Software along with c. C. T. V. Video and credit card records among other tools to do that governments are understandably eager to use every weapon at their disposal in this fight and phone tracking has already proven effective in some places such as china but these measures come with all kinds of questions on finding the right balance between the need for Public Safety and the individuals right to privacy another question worth asking how long to the authorities inten