Dr. Anthony fauci a member of , the White House Coronavirus task force, discussed the ongoing pandemic area George Washington university hosted the event. Everybody, i will come to a very special edition of healthy you. I am frank sesno. I cohost the series. The school of media and Public Affairs, where i hang out. We are talking to amazing people on the front lines of this pandemic, getting their insights, knowledge and experience about how we survived it. Today , Challenging Health crises to confront humanity. Malaria, tuberculosis but probably nothing as dangerous, disruptive and divisive as covid19, which as we speak has claimed more than 170,000 lives he United States alone, he is a doctor, researcher, immunologist. I first covered and interviewed him when i was a White House Correspondent for cnn in the 1980s and aids was exploding. He was one of the first to see the threat, dedicated himself to resources and research the medicine needed to control it and now covid19. Dr. Fauci,
Recently dr. Anthony fauci, a member of the White House Coronavirus task force, talk about the state of the pandemic in the u. S. At an event hosted by George Washington university. Hi, everybody and welcome to a very special edition of healthy you surviving a pandemic. Im frank sesno. I host the series which is a coproduction of the George Washington universities Milken Institute school of Public Health and the school of media and Public Affairs where i hang out. We are talking to amazing people on the front lines of this pandemic, getting there insight, knowledge and experience how we survive it. To date a very special opportunity to talk with dr. Anthony fauci, director of d. C. Hes been director since 1984 and does work with six president on some of the most difficult, Challenging Health crises to confront humanity, hiv aids, ebola, zika, larry, tuberculosis but probably nothing as dangerous, disruptive and as it turns out divisive as covid19. Which is a speak has claimed more than
It started it. It essentially was the industry which was unpacking the biology of cells and understanding how those biology cells could be used to make new medicines, a little different from what pharma was an pharma in the past was essentially trying out medicines on animals and seeing if they work and then put them into a human being a Clinical Trial process once we understood how the genes work, once we knew how to manipulate those jeans, a whole new ability to transform what we knew about cells into medicines came into being. This was areal revolution , and about in the 70s and walked through to the 80s and then now today there are approximately a couple thousand companies, about 700 of whom are members of bio, many are private. They are now much smaller industries in the europe and in asia and actually, these Small Companies although they are tiny and they represent no more than any one of the Big Companies in terms of numbers, theyre generating about 70 70 percent of all the medi
We do know some options that they have. Well explore that a little bit later. Meantime, i was telling you about a lot of depressing economic news. Latest home sales are expected to fall at least 15 this year. That adds to a string of stunningly weak numbers. I say stunningly weak. Wall street was bracing for some bad numbers but to connell mcshane, i dont think they were bracing for this bad. To you, my friend. Connell i think that is the point, neil. In many ways to your point what we learned on both the economic front and when it comes to earnings is soar of confirmation what we already knew. That this economy, thanks to the coronavirus inspired shutdowns is in very rough shape. But when you look at things like retail sales and drop we saw there, this, is even worse than we thought. I mean the largest drop that weve ever seen in retail sales on a monthly basis. So thats march. Economists know april is likely as bad or worse. This comes from the commerce department, only been tracking
Clear, we have been invaded by a potentially lethal species, a virus that is infecting americans now by the tens of day, its killing americans, including in my state. We have infected people in every single one of our states, and the numbers are growing rapidly. In response to this threat, we have been taking progressively more serious measures because of the degree of the danger. The disaster, the illness, the death that we fear if we dont try to stop this virus. So we have gone to an extreme that i would just candidly acknowledge, i never could have imagined. What im talking about is among other things, the fact that my state of pennsylvania, and many other states across america, they are closed. I could never imagine i could even put that since together, my state m is close. What does that even mean . Ill tell you what it means. It means its not legal to operate a business its not legal to go to work in the morning. Tomorrow morning at 8 00. Theres only a very small percentage of pe