Booktv to this breakfast program. Ali khan will discuss his book the next pandemic on the front lines against humankinds gravest dangers. A former director of the office of Public Health, preparedness and response at the centers for Disease Control and prevention, ali khan has been on the frontline in the attempt to contain the world after these diseases. He is not the first, throughout history humans have been fighting diseases, waging deadly and neverending wars against rampant and violent contagions. Humans are not affected by microbes, during ali khans time as a detective our speaker has had his own russians with viruses, infections and contagion. For example in 1995 he worked among red cross workers in the year for the first ebola crisis. After 9 11 he was called washington to defend the spread of anthrax in the Senate Office building. In 2003 he was called to hong kong to quarantine victims of sars. These are just some of the stories ali khan chronicles in the next pandemic on th
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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
The centers for Disease Control 7,038 casest least 97 people have died. The virus has been detected in all 50 states, as well as the district of columbia. Puerto rico, guam, and the virgin islands. New york, Washington State and california have the most cases at 2,6930. The Trump Administration invoked Emergency Powers while lawmakers consider several measures to help workers. Were going to defeat the invisible enemy. I think were gonna do it even faster than we thought. Reporter President Trump along with his Coronavirus Task force announcing new steps the federal government is taking. Well be invoking the defense reduction act. Just in case we need it. Reporter the defense production act am boost production ofcal medical supplies hospitals need. Like n95 facemasks, hand sanitizers and ventilators. The availability and speed of testing is starting to ramp up, which will likely mean somewhere around the number of confirmed coronavirus cases. We will see the number of people diagnosed d