Of all of us in this difficult hour pandemic has encouraged senator Bernie Sanders to drop out of the democratic president ial race. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in intensive care with corona virus but the government says his condition is improving. And u. N. Experts point the finger at syrias government for carrying out chemical weapon attacks on civilians. So then the head of the World Health Organization has defended the agencys handling of the coronavirus pandemic this follows President Donald Trump accusing the w. H. O. Of being chinas centric and threatening to cut funding the organizations chief says now is not the time for such threats. The focus of all Political Parties should be to save the people to please dont politicize this mindless it exploits the differences you have at the national level. If you want to be exploited and if you want to have many more. Body bags then you do it if you dont want many more body bags then you the frame from politicizing it my
Historian survey. Visit our website and order your copy today wherever books are sold. Remarks from secretary of state from the World Health Organization. This is about 25 minutes. Secretary secretary good morning everyone. We remember of those killed scrilanchinga. This is the 75th anniversary year of the liberation of nazi concentration camps that were murdered including six million jews. And repugnant acts of evil will never happen again. Third and in light of the secretary germs message to turn our recovery to do the right thing, i want to remind everyone that the right to achieve a greener, cleaner Brighter Future is to unleash free market competition. Its what we have done here in the United States and continue to be a model and we are a world leader. One simple data point from 2005 to 2018, recently we have data. U. S. Emissions decreased by 10 as our economy grew by 25 . China has been the largest annual emitter since 2006 and expects its initiatives will continue to grow until
Council i would like to think you offered joining with us. We would like to welcome ali khan and cspan book to be to this breakfast program. He will be discussing his book, the next pandemic, as a former director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the centers for Disease Control and t prevention, he isn the front line in the front to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. He is not the first to have done so. Throughout history, humans have beento fighting diseases, waging deadly and neverending word against contagious. In fact, there has never been at time when humans were not affected with microbes and fought against him. During his time as a selfdescribed disease detective, our speaker has had hise own viruses, Infectious Diseases and contagion. For example, 1995 he worked among red cross workers in that year for the first double crisis, after 9 11 he was called to washington to prevent the spreadntnt of anthrax in the see office building. In 2003 he was call
The origin of the corona virus has been a politically sensitive issue for china and a bone of contention between democrats republicans and President Trump who refers to it as the chinese virus now to u. S. States and germany plan to sue china accusing the country of lying and covering up the virus what it 1st appeared back in the fall of 2019 for more on this will bring in our chief fronsac ferret how significant are these lawsuits and do they have any bearing so many of the short answer to that is probably not missouris attorney general eric schmidt is leading the case and after talking with economists at the university of missouri the state is looking to get upwards of 44000000000. 00 and now you also have mississippis a. Saying that shes getting ready to file suit now missouri is the 1st state to file against china mississippi the 2nd all the seek damages and it could be the 1st of many states doing this now according to the missouri lawsuit it reads quote during the critical weeks
We are delighted to welcome dr. Ali khan. Dr. Khan will be discussing his book the next pandemic. As former director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the centers for Disease Control and prevention dr. Khan has been on the front lines in the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. Hes not the first one to have done so. Throughout history humans have been fighting diseases, deadly wars against contagions and there has never been a time where humans were not affects with microbes and fought against him. During khans time our speaker has had with contagions. He worked among red cross for the first ebola crisis. After 911 called to washington to prevent the spread of anthrax in the Senate Office building. A disease hunter, if you will, mission was to read the governments efforts to prepare public for disease outbreaks and health emergencies. He has seen it all. He also writes that not all epidemics and pandemics are inevitable. Most can be mitigated if not