Welcome to the more than 1000 registered attendees at this jackson virtual discussion forum. This is the fifth of these discussions. These discussions have tapped the Exceptional Leadership in knowledge that resides in the jackson network. Today is no exception. All of our panelists today are senior fellows who teach here at yale. Our moderator today, secretary john kerry graduated from yale, and like jacksons founder, john jackson is joining us today, secretary kerry, left new haven to serve in vietnam. He then served more than two decades in the u. S. Senate before becoming the 68th secretary of state under president obama. You probably know all of that, but what you might not know is that secretary kerry continues to pay it forward, helping to train the next generation of leaders here at the Jackson Institute and across yales many schools. It is my pleasure to welcome secretary kerry. At this time, perhaps you might offer perspectives on how you assess the global ramifications of co
Workers at hospitals and first responders. Having gone through this for we have seen now, the positive results of folks staying at home, bending the curve. We know thereure are protocols in place for health care. We understand the importance of testing. We have the goals others do to get the materials for testing and the supply of personal protective equipment. It has been an incredible response from the community and we have seen the decline in cases and that has been a result of the strong response. We took strong action. That has been from folks across the state, our governor, Public Health officials and Community Working together to bend the curve. Stayathome, doing Everything Possible to protect our families and keep people healthy. We have seen the impact of that, how important it is we increase the amount of testing that is available, the critical importance of the supply chain for personal protective equipment and have shared what we have learned across the country. It has been
To hear about the virus response in American Samoa, northern mariana islands, guam, puerto rico, and virgin islands. More portly, we want to receive the perspective about how congress can help local governments adequately address this world pandemic. And for the territories, i think they have a better understanding when we say world pandemic as opposed to just trying to keep it to the mainland here. The territories face unique challenges. Based on geographic location, the unequal treatment under federal programs, and the dire financial situation. And so the islands having been hit by actual disasters in turn including hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes. Now those are we getting the Health Care Infrastructure as covid19. And so local governments has been working to recover and we build under these events. But i believe there is more than needs to be done. And one of the things that this virus has provided all of us is and i hope it provides everyone in congress, is a perspective. But as
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