Commissioner. Here . Are we even i will give one example. Pandemicthere was a flu. They called it swine flu. The outbreak infected more than 2 Million People. As far as i can tell, the who acted incredibly admirably and rapidly in getting vaccines out. The only reason that it was not devastatingost epidemics in the history of humanity is because that particular flu decided not to be very lent. We dont get a vote. But the Gates Foundation has mathematical modelers that estimated that, had it been flu, 33 like the 1918 million, 37 Million People would have died, and we would not be having this conversation because we would be dead. What happens when these sort of things occur is if they dont kill a lot of people, we just move on, especially when it comes to influenza, which people seem to think is just a word that means i dont feel well. For the first question, i would maybe youk tony, can explain why we would want universal vaccines, how does this work, and how is the pandemic different
Speakers include doctor anthony tolkien, director of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases and hamburg , former fda commissioner. This is about an hour. Why are we even hear. I will give one example. In 2009 there was a pandemic flu. Make a swine flu, i dont know why. Its beside the point. Doing you want enough to go back and out of blake instructed more than 2 billion people. As far as i can tell and theres a lot of reporting on this, the who acted incredibly admirably and rapidly in getting vaccine out. And the only reason that it wasnt one of the most devastating epidemics in the history of humanity is because that person particular flu decided not to be berlin. We dont get a vote but the Gates Foundation else modelers who are pretty good and they estimated that had been anything like the 1918 flu, 33, 37 Million People would have died and then we wouldnt be having this conversation or at least some of us wouldnt becausewe began. And what happens when these sort
Reason that it was not one of the most devastating epidemics in the history of humanity is because that particular flu decided not to be very lent. We dont get a vote. But the Gates Foundation has mathematical modelers that estimated that, had it been anything like the 1918 flu, 33 million, 37 Million People would have died, and we would not be having this conversation because we would be dead. What happens when these sort of things occur is if they dont kill a lot of people, we just move on, especially when it comes to influenza, which people seem to think is just a word that means i dont feel well. For the first question, i would like to ask tony, maybe you can explain why we would want universal vaccines, how does this work, and how is the pandemic different from what we get every year, and where are we . Ok. Thanks, michael. Very briefly, because i know we have a lot to talk about, but the situation with influenza, as many know, is that unlike a virus like measles, which, if you ha
Why are we even here . I will give one example. In 2009, there was a pandemic flu. They called it swine flu. The outbreak infected more than 2 Million People. As far as i can tell, the who acted incredibly admirably and rapidly in getting vaccines out. The only reason that it was not one of the most devastating epidemics in the history of humanity is because that particular flu decided not to be very lent. We dont get a vote. But the Gates Foundation has mathematical modelers that estimated that, had it been anything like the 1918 flu, 33 million, 37 Million People would have died, and we would not be having this conversation because we would be dead. What happens when these sort of things occur is if they dont kill a lot of people, we just move on, especially when it comes to influenza, which people seem to think is just a word that means i dont feel well. For the first question, i would like to ask tony, maybe you can explain why we would want universal vaccines, how does this work,
Experience with i. T. Was that it was boondoggle after boondoggle and a tremendous waste of taxpayers money spent on incompetent private contractors who never seem to be able to get things right. And im wondering if you could comment and perhaps its better now, and what impact this has on the current sense of trust among Public Officials regarding their sure. So i would say the failures are just as bad or worse in terms of government contracting, i. T. , healthcare. Gov and the electronic records archive, expensive yearlong projects that largely failed, with healthcare. Gov until it was rescued, big, massive failures. Whats changing is there are a number of people that have identified tractable, fixable problems with the contracting and the i. T. Contracting system, and so if you look at the u. S. Digital service or at 18f, these are new governmentled groups of people that are trying to change the way the government buys technology and to change the way the government builds technology