Theres efforts to wrap it up. It will not get there when we first have first doses of vaccines. So the real issue is if that is locked up in advance which currently it is being still locked up by wealthy nations, the multilateral initiated by the time it gets the resources to compete will not have so the challenge we have is most of the vaccine manufacturing in these advanced purchasing agreement are in these large and merrily wealthy nations but not exclusively you if they are willing to play ball in sharon early doses the rest of the world will wake potentially months or a year or longer to receive the vaccine they need to protect their Health Workers and most vulnerable populations and that will leave a legacy that isnt just about thishad. It will undermine Global Cooperation on a host of other issues. If we cant cooperate in this situation on it sharing a vaccine, what hope do we have to cooperate on climate change, what hope do we have on otherproblems and with that ill stop and l
From the council on Foreign Relations, this is one hour. Welcome to todays council on Foreign Relations report launch of the independent task force preparing for the next pandemic. Perforce we will be talking about the one we are currently experiencing. Im the host of Weekend Edition sunday. We have more than i think 760 registered for this virtual meeting. We will do our best to get to as many questions as we can. But a little bit about this event. Began in 1995 analyzing issues of critical importance to this Foreign Policy in a nonpartisan way. They are responsible for the content of the new reports and in the task force programs 25th year launching the 78th and id like to welcome you to this discussion called in proving img pandemic. Thus, lessons for covid19. A brief introduction of the panelists. We have Sylvia Burwell the professor at the American University and the former u. S. Secretary of health and Human Services under president obama. Welcome to you. Also joining us is franc
Of an independent task force. They talk about the Global Response to covid19, the role of the World Health Organization and Global Health disparities. From the council on Foreign Relations, this is one hour. Welcome to todays council on Foreign Relations report launch of the independent task force preparing for the next pandemic. Perforce we will be talking about the one we are currently experiencing. Im the host of Weekend Edition sunday. We have more than i think 760 registered for this virtual meeting. We will do our best to get to as many questions as we can. But a little bit about this event. Began in 1995 analyzing issues of critical importance to this Foreign Policy in a nonpartisan way. They are responsible for the content of the new reports and in the task force programs 25th year launching the 78th and id like to welcome you to this discussion called in proving img pandemic. Thus, lessons for covid19. A brief introduction of the panelists. We have Sylvia Burwell the professor
But a little bit about this event. Began in 1995 analyzing issues of critical importance to this Foreign Policy in a nonpartisan way. They are responsible for the content of the new reports and in the task force programs 25th year launching the 78th and id like to welcome you to this discussion called in proving img pandemic. Thus, lessons for covid19. A brief introduction of the panelists. We have Sylvia Burwell the professor at the American University and the former u. S. Secretary of health and Human Services under president obama. Welcome to you. Also joining us is frances townsend, a cochair and former assistant to president bush Homeland Security counterterrorism and vice chairman and general counsel are in chief Administration Officer from the forbes incorporated. Welcome to you. Thomas is a codirector and senior fellow from Global Health economics and Development Director of the Global Health programs. Finally stewart patrick, the senior fellow in governance and director of the
Thanks for inviting me to come on with you, and im really looking forward to this conversation. As you know, aye been add an mirier of your work on executive privilege. This should be a lot of fun. I started out wary of President Trump. I wasnt a supporter of his in the 2016 election, expect thing that really worried me was that he was a populist. The constitution seems designed to stop populists. Its fairly democratic in a lot of ways. The so i was worried when trump came in as a populist who wants to achieve an agenda that he feels he received a mandate for, that he would strain against or even go beyond the constitutional constraints of husband power. And i was worried he was doing that in things like the travel ban, threats to build the border wall without congressional approval. And in that early piece i urged him to try to use his president ial powers primarily for National Security and Foreign Affairs and instead to understand Domestic Affairs that his role is really to enforce