Thank you for joining me for covid19 and a responsible rx supply chain, a look at the prescription chain during a global pandemic. Id like to thank our sponsor the Health Distribution alliance for support of todays program. The pandemic has upended our lives and forced a new normal upon us. While accommodations can be made for our lifestyle choices theres little likability when it comes to our healthcare. When patients for chronic diseases have access to regular medication it isnt a choice and in some cases its amatter of life and death. Both the Healthcare System and patients have changed their behaviors. As a consequence concerns and fears have arisen surrounding drug availability and shortages. What are stakeholders doing to ensure disruptions do not occur and theres collaboration between the public and private sectors and what plans are being put in place for distribution of this corona vaccine once it becomesavailable . We discuss all of this with some of thesmartest minds in Heal
Otherwise known as a National Security adviser. I want to welcome all of you here who are able to join us and the audience watching on livestream from the hudson web site but also a special welcome to our cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today and we are to have you here if only virtually and delighted to have everyone who could participatete in this discussio. As i think is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that we have done here at hudson particularly given the fact that we are less thanan a week away from the election. So many of these issues we are going to be talking about today the question of what americas going to do and where americas going to go from here those issues are going to be decided very soon and so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to understand the guide to what takes place regardless of who it is who will be sitting oval office come january january 21. I want to say a few words about our
But also a very special welcome to our cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today, and were delighted to have you here, if only virtually, and delighted to have everyone who was been ablo participate in this discussion. This i think is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that weve done here at hudson, particularly given the fact that we are less than a week away from the election when so many of these issues that were going to be talking about today, the question of what america is going to do, where americas going to go from here, those issues are going to be decided very, very soon. And so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to understand as a guide to what takes place, regardless of who it is who will be sitting in the oval office come january january 21. I want to say a few words about our distinguished guest. Robert obrien was born in los angeles and graduated from the university of california berkeley with a law
We could have seen more fires. The first psps shutoffs are in the name of say. The psps is meant to prevent pg es equipment from being damaged and spark fire. Power wont be restored until tomorrow. Pg e said this waits 12 Daylight Hours to pass before they turn power back on. 5,000 in napa county and 18,000 in Sonoma Countysympathizes wit frustrated customers. It compounds with all the various issues the state is facing. We know it can be exhausting. We appreciate our customers patience. Reporter the north bay dealt with six Power Outages last year. That was tough on businesses. Some have generators, but one Business Owner we spoke with said they still arent seeing customers. One man in santa rosa said he and his mother had a lot of issues because of last years outages. They are worried about this year. She fell in the house and injured her shoulder because the power was out. Ship couldnt see and she fell down. I totaled my car because the stop lights were out. We had a rough year last
Keep coordination and healthcare flowing after a disaster, can happen between the government and the private sector. The stateadvised department during the ebola crisis. What are the parallels from back in 2014, 2015 . Guest yes, i think one of the most important lessons from the Ebola Outbreak was the role of partnerships. A big part of the responsibility that our team had was to make sure that the u. S. State department was working with the who and working with the u. S. Agency on the coronation that needed to happen across government, with businesses, to make sure that the west african outbreak could be contained, and that whatever we could do to make sure that the logistics were able to flow could sustain, and i think that is a big part of what we see. Every disaster, every disease outbreak is a huge logistical effort, and so making sure that we have our best on working with fema and others, to be able to do that but also that whatever is necessary from the private sector, private