The whistleblower has told the u. S. Congress that the nation could be facing its darkest winter in modern history on this urgent actions taken to deal with a coronavirus pandemic rick bright was the head of the Agency Responsible for developing a vaccine he was removed just last month he says he was sacked for raising concerns over the governments response to the pandemic that and more than 85000. 00 virus related deaths in the u. S. So far thats the highest in the world a White House Correspondent kimberly hellcat has more brights testimony. Dr rick wright repeatedly said that when he was head of a Vaccine Agency within the u. S. Government that he warned some top officials including the health and Human Services secretary alex aids are that there were insufficient stockpiles in terms of personal protective equipment ventilators he was told that his urgings were causing a commotion and he was removed from those meetings still he said he pressed because he was concerned that lives wer
He has just written a new book, secret wars covert conflict in international politics. It will be available for purchase after todays talk. Dr. Carson is an assistant professor in the department of Political Science at the university of chicago. He has published widely already. He is published in the journal of politics and security studies. He has launched on his second book project already. It analyzes the role of Sensitive Information and secrecy in international organizations. He received his phd from ohio state in 2013. As i previously mentioned, he was a Summer Research scholar under the title a program here at the institute in 2013. With that, i will turn the floor over to austin. Thank you. Thanks also to all of you for coming. Its great to be back here at the Wilson Center. I really appreciate the institute that support the Cold War International history project. And a shout out to victoria and sydney for all youve done to make it possible. I want to start my talk about this b
Pandemic, members of the House Appropriations subcommittee and on capitol hill to look at the virus. The hearing included testimony from former cdc director tom frieden and caitlin rivers from the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security. This is 2. 5 hours. The hearing will come to order. Welcome to thend labor, health, and Human Services and education appropriations subcommittee. Todays hearing is on the nations ongoing response to the coronavirus. On thether supplemental package, it has been bipartisan. Let me commend my colleagues on both sides of the aisle clouding my friend and Ranking Member. Before i begin, i want to extend a very warm welcome to our witnesses, dr. Tom frieden, president and ceo of resolve to save lives and former director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention, the cdc. From 2000 92016. Dr. Caitlin rivers, featured scholar at the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security and assistant professor in the department of Environmental Health and engineerin
Relatively quiet day in the treasury market. This will be the last day of trading for the week here in the u. S. Because of the good friday holiday tomorrow. The s p 500, on the biggest gain since 1974 on a weekly basis. Every week, there is some sort of superlative like that. Any gain today would have resulted in building on the onemonth high we posted yesterday. What is interesting is that volume is somewhat higher than yesterday. Quite a bit higher. S p, 30 40 nd higher than yesterday. I think a lot of people are going to be sitting on their hands next week as they wait for the earnings season to begin. Just to get some kind of read from the ceos and maybe the tone of how they present their outlook. Romaine good point. Next week will be a busy week. Ameripriseing by, financial strategist anthony saglimbene. Thank you for being with us. Inn you look at the rally the equity markets, you look at this idea that you have a lot of folks looking at valuation, aying that it is sort of oncei
How can Health Workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic be better protected doctors and nurses around the world are risking their lives to treat the growing number of patients and the enormous mental and physical strain on them be reduced this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im homages to him the war against the coronavirus pandemic is being fought in hospitals around the world doctors and nurses are on the front line but the long hours and huge workload are taking their toll hospitals are not only running out of ventilators for patients they cant supply staff with protective gear such as masks and surgical gowns thousands of Health Workers are falling ill the number who have died is growing in spain medical staff account for 15 percent of reported cases and Health Workers in britain and the u. S. Say they cant get tested for the disease because there arent enough screening kits. Some medical staff have even been attacked in india police had to rescue doctors from cr