And more. Welcome to and the professors here and the director of the instituted the World Health Organization center on Global Health law. I am really delighted to introduce two amazing people, we are old friends, we worked together for so many years. I will be brief because he has to be back at the white house and run the covid response. Sitting next to me is julie, the former director of the center for Disease Control and prevention and has worked at the cdc in many capacities. She is currently the chief executive officer of the foundation for the National Institute of health. Ashish jha also needs no introduction. He was there when covid exploded in west africa, the head of the Harvard Aids Institute and at the school of Public Health and is now the white house coordinator of the covid 19 response. When im going to do is begin with a very big question and in the middle we will go into things that are important. Subvariants, therapeutic vaccines, funding. Let me start with this quest
Talking point that is tired frankly. I would like to first start with the fact that there are more babies aborted, black babies aborted in new york city in any given year. Whats happening, there is racism the targets the white house covid19 coordinator talked about the pandemic and preparing for future outbreaks in a conversation with the law center and more. Welcome to and the professors here and the director of the instituted the World Health Organization center on Global Health law. I am really delighted to introduce two amazing people, we are old friends, we worked together for so many years. I will be brief because he has to be back at the white house and run the covid response. Sitting next to me is julie, the former director of the center for Disease Control and prevention and has worked at the cdc in many capacities. She is currently the chief executive officer of the foundation for the National Institute of health. Ashish jha also needs no introduction. He was there when covid
Our discussions will focus with the people that were dealing with on rejuvenating the economy and always health, always health. Health and life, living is number one. But the rejuvenated economy, and i think its going to go quickly. Well be utilizing our robust Testing Capacity for the governors. Well be giving them what they need if they dont have it themselves. We hope by now theyll be able to have it themselves. We were hoping theyd have it for themselves early on but they werent. Such great advances have been made. Well be dealing with that. They can rely on us very strongly. Theyll be relying on us i think for some help, and were there, whether its building hospital beds which i dont think theyre going to need. You look at javits center, the great, great job that the army corps of engineers did. Fema got involved. We actually ended upsetting our medical people. That was not a covid19 center. They asked could you do that. Even after we did that, it was not used very much. Meaning t
We are so far from being out of the woods here in new york city, still the epicenter. Ed the opposite approach to what President Trump is taking to discuss the federal response. Joins us live from the north lawn, good morning putting some meat on the bones, the stock process saying the number of coronavirus cases is strongly trending downward throughout the United States with few exceptions. A very good news indeed. The latest statistics to show, but the peak is still maddeningly slower. In video poker limited operations, florida and texas gyms and Fitness Centers and some other businesses can reopen. Vermont retail stores, minnesota the same thing with a lot of restrictions on those. New hampshire restaurants may offer that is a big step forward for them as we get into the nice weather in South Carolina, some businesses can reopen as well as public and commercial pools. The white house says that the federal government stands ready to offer expertise and support to do it. The hhs secre
In the last hour, a white house doctor has confirmed that he prescribed the president with an anti malarial drug as a precaution after a member of staff was confirmed to have coronavirus. The us food and Drug Administration warns against the general use of this drug for this purpose. Mr trump, whos tested negative several times, earlier told reporters hes been taking hydroxychloroquine for a week and a half. A lot of good things have come out about hydroxychloroquine. A lot of good things have come out. And youd be surprised at how many people are taking it, especially the frontline workers, before you catch it. The frontline workers, many, many are taking it. I happen to be taking it, i happen to be taking it. Hydroxychloroquine . Im taking it, hydroxychloroquine. Right now, yeah. A couple of weeks ago, i started taking it. Because i think its good, ive heard a lot of good stories. And if its not good, i will tell you, youre not going to get hurt by it. Its been around for a0 yea rs,