Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Washington and this is bbc world news america. The president s back home in isolation, but itching to get out on the campaign trail again. Wall street tanks after President Trump tweets he is ending negotiations with democrats on a pandemic stimulus bill. Europe is seeing a spike in coronavirus cases as the temperature begins to drop. We find out what measures germany has put in place for the autumn months. And parts of east africa are experiencing one of the worst flood seasons in recent years, forcing 1. 5 Million People to leave their homes. Welcome to bbc world news america on pbs and around the globe. President trump says hes prepared to go ahead next week with a second televised debate against joe biden despite his treatment for covid. The president returned to the white hou
Only today but for your strong support to the council in the past and especially at this critical time and a welcome to everyone joining the counsel for the first time. Our main topic today is about the leadership challenges facing people around the globe with covid19 currently and in the future. We are thrilled to have with us today dr. David navarro to talk about these matters. Dr. Navarro was the special envoy for the west africa Ebola Response for the u. N. And the special coordinator for the avian flu for pandemic. Envoycurrently special for the World Health Organization for this covid19 response. He has a long history for working in Infectious Diseases and we are thrilled you could be with us today. Great to be with you all. I am delighted to be a part of this webinar. Thank you. Lets start with giving an update, before we get into leadership issues, an update on where we are in the world with covid19 and what you see for its future and our future. Thank you. We are all very awar
Beyond that let me say we have been working through femas acquisition process not only to deploy but to gather up personal protective equipment. In a few moments you will hear from admiral john polcyk on the extraordinary progress we made on the strategic stockpile but identifying on the commercial marketplace around america and around the world literally millions of n95 masks, surgical gowns, gloves, protective equipment and at this point we distributed some 7600 ventilators and you will hear today specifically about the state has have received those ventilators. Were just, this team is truly acted in an inspiring way and literally is working with dozens and dozens of people at the fema Stabilization Task force to make sure that we are leaving no stone unturned to find the supplies we need. Today let me also say you will hear from Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to the president of the United States but someone the White House Coronavirus task force directed to work with fema on supply
Is that we are dangerously over dependent on a Global Supply chain. For our medicine is. Like penicillin our medical supplies like masks and our medical equipment like ventilators we have right now as we speak over 50 countries have already imposed some forms of export restrictions in their country against the rest of the world and what weve read were learning from that. Is that no matter how many treaties you have no matter how many alliances or matter how many phone calls. When push comes to shove you run the risk as a nation of not having what you need and if theres any vindication of the president s by american secure borders and a Strong Manufacturing base philosophy strategy and belief it is this crisis because it underscores everything that we see there so the buy american order which which is going through process would do do couple things it would simply say not during this crisis because we dont want to disrupt anything or be really clear about that but Going Forward after th
Beyond that let me say we have been working through femas acquisition process not only to deploy but to gather up personal protective equipment. In a few moments you will hear from admiral john polcyk on the extraordinary progress we made on the strategic stockpile but identifying on the commercial marketplace around america and around the world literally millions of n95 masks, surgical gowns, gloves, protective equipment and at this point we distributed some 7600 ventilators and you will hear today specifically about the state has have received those ventilators. Were just, this team is truly acted in an inspiring way and literally is working with dozens and dozens of people at the fema Stabilization Task force to make sure that we are leaving no stone unturned to find the supplies we need. Today let me also say you will hear from Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to the president of the United States but someone the White House Coronavirus task force directed to work with fema on supply