We are delighted to welcome dr. Ali khan. Dr. Khan will be discussing his book the next pandemic. As former director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the centers for Disease Control and prevention dr. Khan has been on the front lines in the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. Hes not the first one to have done so. Throughout history humans have been fighting diseases, deadly wars against contagions and there has never been a time where humans were not affects with microbes and fought against him. During khans time our speaker has had with contagions. He worked among red cross for the first ebola crisis. After 911 called to washington to prevent the spread of anthrax in the Senate Office building. A disease hunter, if you will, mission was to read the governments efforts to prepare public for disease outbreaks and health emergencies. He has seen it all. He also writes that not all epidemics and pandemics are inevitable. Most can be mitigated if not
News writer thomas frank discusses how clean and the army corps of engineers are responding. At 9 50, representative danny davis of illinois on the pandemic in the state. Host good morning, this is washington journal for april 3. We are showing you footage from d. C. Terryton , Cherry Blossom festival last year. We want to know how you are responding to the covid19 outbreak, particularly in positive ways. Maybe there is a search of volunteerism in your community, or assisting others who are desperate and needy during this time. Tell us your story on two lines this morning. 202 7488000 for the eastern and central time zones, and 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific time zones. If you want to tweet us, it is 202 7488003. Make sure you put your name, city, and state if you text on that line. You can tweet us at cspanwj and post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Even in these dire times, there are several positive stories in the papers across the United States. Just a couple
Threats that these countries and communities face. This includes doing research as well as training, and also trying to establish and evaluate theseogram with some of Public Health threats that exist around the world. I think in terms of covid19, we have also, because we are established in many of these communities around the world, we have taken upon ourselves to try to think ahead and try to work with these countries to put in place preparedness, to prepare them for the oncoming onslaught of cases of covid19, as well as also to develop specific studies that try to measure the attentional impact of covid19 in these communities. At the same time here in new have communities in harlem and the south bronx that are also aiming to contribute to the response to covid19 by doing some studies there as well. As anyour point of view epidemiologist, what is the worst and best Case Scenario for the weeks ahead, not only for deaths and sicknesses but the ability to flatten the curve, so to speak .
Deadliest diseases. Throughout history, humans have been fighting diseases winning deadly neverending wars against rampant contagions. In fact, theres never been a time when humans were not affected with microbes and against them. During the time as a disease detective our speaker has had his ow own brush and own brushi, Infectious Diseases and contagions. For example, in 1995, working with red cross workers for the first ebola crisis and after 9 11, he was called to washington to prevent the spread of anthrax to the Senate Office building. And in 2003 he was called to hong kong. But these are just some of the stories doctor khan chronicles in the next pandemic carried as an epidemic intelligence officer, a disease hunter if you go, his missions for two decades were to read the efforts to prepare the public for disease outbreaks in the Health Emergencies. He has seen it all. While he tells us that it will always be a problem, he also writes as all epidemics and pandemics are inevitable
Fact there has never been a time when humans were not affected during his time as a selfdescribed disease detective he has had his own brushes with viruses and wnfectious disease in contagion in 1995 he worked in zaire for the first a bola after 9 11 he was called to washington to prevent the spread of anthrax and in 2003 called to hong kong to help quarantines ours. These are some of the stories he chronicles in the next pandemic as a disease hunter and has been trying to prepare the public for Health Emergencies and he has seen it all. Telling us microbes will always be a problem he also writes that in all all epidemics and pandemics are inevitable in fact most can be mitigated if not prevented. But how do we have enough resources . To help a separate the hype from the facts what poses the greatest risk of what we need to do please join me on a Public Health journey by welcoming doctor kohn to the Carnegie Council this morning. [applause] thank you very much. Good morning everybody.