And as professional sports around the world. Without fans in the stands. Welcome to the Program Health experts and diplomats are taking part in the annual wild Health Assembly the governing body of the World Health Organization the focus is on the corner by the spend make an unprecedented challenge for the job in a virtual address. So the waldorf being a heavy price for its lack of cohesion in this farming to the pandemic he also criticised countries that ignored the recommendations and so helped facilitate the spread of the coronavirus hes. Also speaking to the. Whole renewed hasa port for the she called for more Cooperation Among nations to tackle the pandemic yes what she said. Great i would say cocoon of you was punin you know i am a design not going to virus pandemic has shown us that we need to do more globally in Prevention Research and the strengthening of Health Systems because thats the theme you would give them that the w. H. O. Is the legitimate Global Organization for heal
Think. That is wonderful with social distancing its great to see we can get it done and it was an honor truly to read your book it is a running theme people who should know say i had no idea people joining the conversation tonight on what your fight has been about and the changes you have made to give People Perspective compare and contrast what it was like as a young person coming into the world with a disability and what it is like now. On the one hand the difference is very significant because i had polio 1929 in brooklyn just the beginning of television and to recognize the Important Role so there were no lies that protected the rights of disabled people there werent that were protecting the rights of other minorities there werent that were protecting the rights of other minorities point it was unusual but people were looking at disability as a medical issue and not carrying it so there wasnt a lot of activity going on to look at discrimination as that componen component. So the be
With the coronavirus pandemic. The total spending is about 2. 5 trillion thats already been spent. The speaker of the house proposed a new piece of legislation this week that i think the house will vote on on friday thats another 3 trillion. So its actually more than the previous four combined. And the legislation that she is proposing has a lot of items that arent directly related to the covid19 crisis. They are, as some have said, a wish list of priorities and others have said in the media that its more of a messaging bill. So well see. Among other things, it says as an example that they want to change the current law which says that youre limited in terms of how much of a federal Tax Deduction you can take for state and local taxes. Thats called the salt issue. They want to repeal that. That cost, by the way, is about 180 billion, Something Like that. And it would result in about 50 of the benefit, the tax benefit going to the top 1 of taxpayers. So if that doesnt sound like its som
Trillion. So its actually more than the previous four combined. And the legislation that shes proposing has a lot of items that arent directly related to the covid19 crisis, they are, as someone said, a wish list of priorities and others have said in the media that its more of a messaging bill. So well see. Among other things it says as an example that they want to change the current law which says that youre limited in terms of how much of a federal Tax Deduction you can take for state and local taxes, thats called the salt issue, and they want to repeal that. That cost, by the way, is about 180 billion dollars, Something Like that. And it would result in about 50 of the benefit, the tax benefit going to the top 1 of the taxpayers. So if that doesnt sound like something thats going to be, you know, impactful in terms of the coronavirus pandemic we face, i can think a lot of better ways to spend that money, including more testing, ensuring our Small Businesses can get back on their fee
The Government Faces more criticism over the way its handling of the pandemic. Only. Muslims around the world are urged to stick to social distancing guidelines at the start of the fasting month of ramadan. Global leaders have joined the World Health Organization to launch an initiative to speed up work on drugs tests and a vaccine for covert 19 that will be available for everyone but that was unmarked absence in the United States announcing it would not be getting involved the w. H. O. Is yet to reveal further details of the initiative w. H. O. If chief says its important all tools used for fighting the virus are available to everyone. But experience has taught us that even when tools are available they had been not been equally available to all we cannot allow that to happen today doubly sure is proud to be uniting with many partners to launch the axis to call video 19 tools accelerator or the accelerator this is a landmark collaboration to accelerate the Development Production and.