Good morning and welcome to Washington Post live i am eugene scott a political reporter of the Washington Post and i would like to welcome our first guest this morning assistant Health Secretary at hhs and a member of president Trumps Coronavirus Task force admiral brett, thank you so much for joining me. Good morning it is great to be here with you this morning, thank you for the invitation. I got that correct right. I am from deep down in louisiana and thats pretty darn close, that is a great first try at that. Great, admiral you the white house and lead developer of the hhs wire Public Health policy recommendation so i was hoping you could give us an overview of the Current Situation on the ground today. The situation on the ground with the pandemic, i think everyone understands that similar to where we were post memorial day, we had a significant increase in the number of cases, the hospitalizations are starting to go up as well and we do however, know how to defeat the pandemic to
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What plans are put in place for distribution of the Coronavirus Vaccine once it becomes available. We will discuss this and more, a few housekeeping notes, at the hill events, the hashtag, special letters, thehillrx supply chain. We will take question throughout the program and i look forward to those. If you experience trouble live stream refreshing it will work i hope. My first guest is National Health expert and respond to the frontlines and implementation of the Affordable Care act, governor secretary Kathleen Sebelius is the ceo of sibelius resources which provide strategic advice to nonprofits that is my go to person when it comes to issues of knowing what a smart Healthcare System looks like. Let me just ask you, you oversaw many of the institutions we are looking at to save this country whether it is pushing the time curve on developing a vaccine and distributing it or how you approve various dimensions of this therapeutic, what would you say is going well, what would you say h
And patients have changed their behaviors, as a consequence in concerns of drug availability and shortages, what are stakeholders doing to ensure the disruptions do not occur in collaboration between the public and the private sectors, what plans are being put in place for the distribution of this corona vaccine once it becomes available, we will discuss all of this and much more with the smartest minds in health policy, before we get underway he is entered a few housekeeping notes at the hill event and the comes special letters, the hill rx supply chain. Sibelius resources which provides strategic advice to companies, investors and nonprofits and is my go to person when it comes to issues of knowing what a smart Healthcare System looks like. So, great to see you. Let me ask you, to get to the point, you oversaw many of the institutions that we are now looking at today to help save this country whether its pushing the time curb, developing a vaccine, whether its on how you approve the
This is just over one hour. Hello and welcome i am editor at the hill, thank you for joining us for covid19 and a responsible rx supply chain, or Virtual Event looking at the resiliency of the Prescription Drug supply chain during a Global Pandemic. Id like to thank our sponsors the Healthcare Distribution Alliance for their support of todays program, the coronavirus pandemic has upended our lives and forced a new normal upon us, what accommodations can be made for lifestyle choices but little flexible lead to health care, patients with chronic disease and those most at risk from the coronavirus access to regular medication is in the choice and matter of life and death in a pandemic the Healthcare System and patients have changed their behaviors, as a consequence in concerns of drug availability and shortages, what are stakeholders doing to ensure the disruptions do not occur in collaboration between the public and the private sectors, what plans are being put in place for the distribu