Potential treatments including a medication currently used for malaria. Traumatized by war now terrified of the virus well look at efforts to prevent an outbreak in the camps of Northern Syria. And while more glimmers of hope are emerging from china infections and other Asian Countries are still climbing. On a virus has now killed more people in italy than anywhere else its death toll of more than 3400. 00 surpassed that reported by china where the virus 1st emerged iran spain and germany each have more than 15000 cases worldwide according to Johns Hopkins university more than 242000 people have contracted the illness almost 85000 of them have recovered all more than 9800 have died as President Trump says he is pushing regulators to fast track run a virus treatments including an antimalaria drug but his own officials later talked that down more on that in a moment will began with the situation in italy paul brennan has this report. The head of the World Health Organization has called c
Welcome to the second day of the policy conference. My name is ilan kolet. Im the head of inflation and Commodities Research at Fidelity Investments in boston. Today, we have the pleasure of hearing the latest views from World Bank President David Malpass. President malpass is the 13th president of the world bank group. A term he began last year. Prior to joining the world bank, he served as undersecretary of the treasury for international affairs, founded a Macroeconomics Research firm, and served as the chief economist at bear stearns. While many of us know him now as a policymaker, there is a very long history in private sector macroeconomic analysis. Yesterday, when i was chatting with a retired friend of mine, he mentioned that the best moderators are funny, fluid, and forgettable. With that, president malpass, the floor is yours. That was funny and fluid and everybody will remember it. So you failed. Well, ilan, im very pleased to be here. Ive got some notes, and then ive got som
Welcome to the second day of the policy conference. Im the ahead of inflation, oddities research and fidelity in boston and today we have the pleasure of hearing the latest views from the 13th president of the World Bank Group determined he began last year prior to joining he served as undersecretary of the treasury for international affairs, founded a Macroeconomic Research firm and served as the chief economist while many of us know him now as a policymaker there is a very long history in the private sector economics. When i was chatting with a friend of mine he mentioned the best moderators are funny, fluid and forgettable. With that, the floor is yours. Im very pleased to be here. Ive got some notes and then it is nothing as to tell people about and am looking forward to the conversation and the National Association the meetings were one of my favorite in the 1980s when i was at the Senate Budget committee and the joint Economic Committee select switched on to be back and see some
Concerns. Pres. Trump because of all we have done, the risk to the American People remains very low. We have the greatest experts in the world really come in the world right here. We are ready to adapt and we are ready to do whatever we have to as the disease spreads, if it spreads. Amy as trump spokeke up it was reported a person was diagnosed with the coronavirus in california, who had not traveled to any of the affected regions of the world nor had known contact with anyone who did. It is called community spread. We will speak with Pulitzer Prize winning Science Writer Laurie Garrett who says trump has sabotaged americas coronavirus response. We will also talk to science investigative journalist sonia shah about the connection between coronavirus and climate change. Her book pandemic tracking contagion from cholera to ebola and beyond. Then as trump leaves india, the death toll from antimuslim violence in new delhi has risen to at least 34. 20 to 25 people started beating me. The re
The World Bank Group determined he began last year prior to joining he served as undersecretary of the treasury for international affairs, founded a Macroeconomic Research firm and served as the chief economist while many of us know him now as a policymaker there is a very long history in the private sector economics. When i was chatting with a friend of mine he mentioned the best moderators are funny, fluid and forgettable. With that, the floor is yours. Im very pleased to be here. Ive got some notes and then it is nothing as to tell people about and am looking forward to the conversation and the National Association the meetings were one of my favorite in the 1980s when i was at the Senate Budget committee and the joint Economic Committee select switched on to be back and see some old friends. The 1980s was an important time for u. S. Growth but like today, the years presented challenges for growth especially for the developing countries theres quite a few topics today but the one id