thank goodness that the south africans are really extraordinarily good in what they did. they were completely transparent right from the beginning. we were on the phone getting realtime information from them on friday. we re going to be talking to them again today. so we have an advantage of this. we have an up on it. we know what s going on. we re getting more information in real time. when you diminish or stop or block travel from a particular country, there s a reason for that. it s to give you time to do things. so don t let this decision that was made about blocking the travel from certain countries go without a positive effect, and the positive effect is to get us better prepared, to rev up on the vaccination, to be really ready for something that may not actually be a big deal, but we want to make sure we re prepared for the worst. that s what we should be doing. okay.
that day, memos, phone conversations. probably strong investigative beliefs, just good information that investigative body would want to have that would be realtime information. not someone s, you know, self-serving recollections or failures to remember. so i think that s really important there. and, you know, steve bannon was an alt right guy coming into the campaign. he said so. hobnobbed with white nationalists around the globe and it s not surprising ends. day, if people like him and trump himself get away with this, they will only be involved in, that s why the election results, i agree with bannon on this. doesn t kill the investigation of the crib, but election results show that there s still a lot of americans, at least in the state of virginia, and new jersey, who say that republican party is fine with them even if
oftentimes when we look back on situations like this the government says, oh, let s create another agency, but creating another agency often just means more red tape, more bureaucracy and it solves nothing. how do you think we better prepare? look, i think we need to invest these authorities and capacities within the cdc. we can t create a new agency and this can t sit outside the cdc but you need to imagine what cdc will be capable of doing in public health crises of this magnitude. they will need an operational capacity to do the logistical support you need in a public health crisis, national public health crisis. they will have to change their culture and mindset and be a much more forward leaning prospectively focused agency. the cdc has a retrospective mindset, they collect data from bespoke data feeds, but they take months to reach conclusions and publish those conclusions in a weekly report. what you need in the setting of a fast-moving crisis is an agency able to surface real
there seemed to be no central school data repository. there was a professor of economics at brown trying to collate it all together. do we have central data? is there central somewhere in the federal government whether it s cdc or you, there is a database that is tracking school infections, how they re moving, what the rates are in schools so that we know what s going on? right, chris. data needs to drive the direction that we move. data needs to drive where we re focusing our efforts. and what we ve done since coming in is develop data systems working closely with cdc to make sure we have realtime information. right now we have folks at the department of education working closely with states calling, tracking these data. and we are using these data to determine that the strategies are working and where there are pockets of covid spread we re noticing that the use of mitigation strategies is not consistent. so, yes, we aredwe those systems that did not exist before.
repository. there were individuals of professors of that we re trying to collate it altogether. do we have central data? is there central, somewhere in the government, whether cdc are you, is there a database that is tracking school infections, how they re moving, what s the rates are in schools, so that we know what s going on? right chris, data needs to drive the direction that we move. data needs to drive where we are focusing our efforts. and what we ve done, since coming in, is that we ve developed data system working closely with cdc. to make sure that we have realtime information. right now we have folks at the department of education, working closely with states, calling and tracking this data, and we are using data to determine that the strategies are working, and where there are pockets of covid spread, we are noticing that the use of mitigation strategy, is not consistent, so yes we are developing those systems that did not exist before. but we do need those now to