Virus vaccine be free of charge for everyone caught between a pandemic and civil war between tragedies increase the suffering in yemen and the coronavirus is the take that in a bangladesh camp home to more than a 1000000 refugees. A whistleblower has issued a stark warning over the coronavirus pandemic in testimony before the u. S. House of representatives rick bright is the former head of the u. S. Agency responsible for developing a vaccine for the virus he says he was sacked for raising concerns over the u. S. Colona virus response he told the house that unless urgent action was taken the country would be facing its darkest winter in modern history there have been more than 82000 coronavirus related deaths in the u. S. So far well our White House Correspondent kimberly how kid joins us live tell us a little bit more about what dr rick bright told the house. Sharply critical of the administrations response to the corona virus pandemic inside the United States dr rick wright repeatedl
[applause] thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us for this book talk. Brick by brick, building hope and opportunity for women survivors everywhere, by karen sherman. What a powerful title, right . Each word of the title has power within its own self, and i think that you will see that illuminated today during the conversation that karen will have with barbara. Im marjorie san, im manager director at ascend at the as spend institute and its my pleasure to step in for my boss, ann mosley, the executive director of asend and also a Vice President at the as spend institute. U fortunately she had family emergency today and is nose able to make it but she was heavily involved in the planning. It was her honor to host the book talk because she has known karen as a very close friend for many, many years and if you know ann, you know that personal and professional relationships and commitments are really important to her. So only an emergency would have kept her from open
All we can do is reduce human to huhuman contact that can transm the virus. We need everybody to cooperate until may 6th. All seven prefectures are asking nonessential businesses to close until it expires. They want to reduce the social interaction by at least 70 . Theyre warning that the young are not immune to the virus which has infected more than 1. 9 Million People worldwide. The Japanese Health ministry has released a breakdown showing the ages of all confirmed cases. Out of some 7,000, more than half the people infected were younger than 50. Researchchers are trying to find a cure for covid19. They started using an experimental drug designed to treat ebola at three mededical institutions in japan. Remdesivir is being developed by a u. S. Company. 4,000 patients will have a Clinical Trial to confirm the safety and effectiveness of the medicine. Across japan more than 300 new cases were confirmed on tuesday. Over 8,000 people have now tested positive for the virus. The tally doesn
Everwhere. By karen sherman. What a title, right . Each word of the title has meaning within itself and i think you will see that eliminated today during the conversation that karen will have with barbara. I am Marjorie Sims managing director at the Aspen Institute and sly pleasure to step in for my boss pam mosley who is the executive director of aspen and the Vice President at the Aspen Institute. Unfortunately she had a family emergency today and is not able to speak she was heavily involved in the planning and it was her honor to be able to host this book talk because she has been a very close friend for many years. If you know ann you know the personal relationships and commitments are very important to her so only in emergency would have kept her from opening this up. Again thank you for being here and im not going to spend a lot of time because you have the bios in front of you and i think its important to get into the conversation that i am honored to be able to introduce karen
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