Business economics, its two hours 15 minutes. Thank you everybody for joining us this morning over coffee. The opening session of the policy conference, i am the director of the center of the National Independent business. And i am delighted to introduce the vice chair of the white House Counsel of Economic Advisor. Preparing for the session i found that we have a foundational commonality and he is originally from sweden, im originally from minnesota, the land of american. He stopped a bit short of the minnesota border and currently on leave from the university of chicago where he is the professor of Public Policy studies at the University School of Public Policy. In the Freedman Institute program on research and healthcare markets and policies within the Health Economic initiative. Before rising at the university of chicago he served in several positions including his role as Senior Advisor to the head of food and Drug Administration and as a senior Economic Advisor to the head of the
Quarantine. Not beat. People leave our. Bus to critics accuse the u. K. Government of pursuing a high Risk Strategy for battling covert 19 at the moment anyway despite assurances the disease wont be allowed to sweep through the population to create herd immunity we asked people in london what they thought about that idea but when you say we put out for us to say were going to put up people to get the hardest jobs we make. By their well kevin oh and here they are to International World to center with your 30 minute live update this hour thank you for your company 1st as the fallout for the corona virus continues to sink in so many elements coming in it seems tonight that contingency plans are not stopping the Financial Markets from plunging Worldwide Americas dow jones index has dropped another 10 percent within moments of wall street Opening Monday earlier discussed was driving markets to the brink of collapse with our Senior Correspondent laura gusty of well theres only one way this i
Director of the center of the National Independent business. And i am delighted to introduce the vice chair of the white House Counsel of Economic Advisor. Preparing for the session i found that we have a foundational commonality and he is originally from sweden, im originally from minnesota, the land of american. He stopped a bit short of the minnesota border and currently on leave from the university of chicago where he is the professor of Public Policy studies at the University School of Public Policy. In the Freedman Institute program on research and healthcare markets and policies within the Health Economic initiative. Before rising at the university of chicago he served in several positions including his role as Senior Advisor to the head of food and Drug Administration and as a senior Economic Advisor to the head of the center for medicare and medicaid services. He also served as a healthcare advisor for john mccain during his president ial campaign. Thank you so much for joinin
President donald trump made a rare appearance in the White House Briefing room to downplay the threat of coronavirus the risk to the American People remains very low trump the klein told point to socalled corona virus czar as some lawmakers in the u. S. Have urged instead naming Vice President mike pence as the point person to lead the u. S. Response to the growing outbreak were doing really well and mike is going to be in georgia and mike will report back to me Top Public Health officials are warning americans to prepare for more corona virus infections in the United States the degree of risk has the potential to change quickly and we can expect to see more cases in the United States the trajectory of what were looking at over the weeks and months ahead is very uncertain but even with those warnings trump continued to contradict the message of Career Health professionals with his all i dont think its inevitable probably will it possibly will it could be at a very small level or could
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