After covid19 vaccine. We are going to be talking in particular of an Innovative New model to try to address the issues around how to encourage accelerated research and development of important vaccine candidates, but also, how they can produced and distributed in ways that take an International Perspective and a perspective of equity and a Public Healthdriven distribution approach. So, were going to be talking a lot about the covax and theres a slide for the audience to get more grounded in what is covax. Its the vaccine pillar of something called the act accelerator to speed up access to diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines. There are three elements of the necessary tools for an effective medical and Public Health response. This was launched in april and it was really launched as a collaboration of both government, importantly including the European Union and their president , but also philanthropy and not for profit organizations coming together, recognizing this critical need as
Hospitals are overwhelmed the blasts were caused by tons of highly explosive material stored in warehouses also on our program. With just 90 days left of the u. S. Election we hear from lifelong republicans considering the unthinkable. Casting their ballots in november for a democrat. And with parts of the u. K. Seeing a rise in new covert infections tough new restrictions have been issued for millions of households in northern england. Im brian thomas good to have you with us today beirut awoke to scenes of utter devastation this morning after 2 colossal explosions devastated part of lebanons. Pittel happened at a warehouse where nearly 3000 tons of highly explosive Ammonium Nitrate were apparently stored without any Safety Measures at least 100 people were killed some 4000 injured that according to the red cross were getting these live images from beirut where smoke you can see there continues to billow over that blast site the explosions shattered windows as far as 20 kilometers awa
We established the commission in 2018, it is extending its work in the midst of the intimate through the fall of 2022. These issues are central to the work. We are undertaking. Peggy, one of our commissioners, will be presiding. She recently stepped down from the National Academy of medicine, and was the president of the American Association for the advancement of science, and the former fda commissioner, and former Health Commissioner for the city of new york. We published an analysis that is a companion to this event. S it possible to avert chaos in the vaccine scramble . It is available at csis. Org. The proposition is nationalism dominates the scramble for vaccines. And there is a certain highrisk that low Income Countries will be left out, subject to great delay and uncertainty commander this will have destabilizing consequences. Paper have in our examined operation warp speed, what china is up to, and we have put focus on a Promising Initiative that we will hear about in a moment
Podcast the russia file. Let me just remind everybody throughout the conversation we were ready gotten quite a few of them, you can submit questions by email at wilson center. Org buyer twitter and facebook pages and please include your name and affiliation just as if you are attending an event at the center which i hope we can do again soon and be more likely to call on you if youre not an anonymous aspect. I am joined today by the ark under doctor fiona who is the center of the United States of europe and the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and as everyone knows wears recently a Deputy Assistant to the president and senior director for European National Security Council that was 2017 to 19 in 2006 2009 she served as the National Officer at the National Intelligence council and is coauthor of the very well received in the kremlin 2015 update of previously published books, i also want to note, i want to know this is a very useful with everybody thinking about russia
More than 3 higher. Shares in astrazeneca hit a record high as the giant prepares to release positive news on the covid19 vaccine and julius bar with a drop in assets under management but a record high net profit and stresses it is well prepared for a challenging second half. European leaders remain deadlock after a drawn out three day summit over the budget and recovery they will resume talks today over how to allocate the money and urging his colleagues to approve the Recovery Fund, italian Prime Minister pushed for unity emphasizing that the pandemic has effected the whole block. Were going through a stalemate. This looks like its very complicated. More complicated than expected theres many issues were discussing and were not yet able to resolve and i have invited all eu leaders to converge to approve the next generation eu which is a plan for european recovery. Over the weekend a lot of negative headlines around the stick point, the size of the fund, between grants and loans and no