A show of strength. Britains Boris Johnson landed in intensive care with a coronavirus after shaking patients heads. To record. People whove worked closely with him say he considers illness is a sign of weakness. In february President Donald Trump announced the disease would just disappear. And its lucky that you have this group here right now for this problem or you would even have a country like. The us has the highest death toll continues to rise. 3 World Leaders accused of incompetency and they are old men. Im been physical and women leading the way in this crisis there are enough examples as. But is this a revolution of women or are we seeing a crisis of competency so. The world. About that later in the show 1st. Clear communication quick Decisive Action or willingness to listen to science just some of the accolades these leaders have received for their handling of the corona virus and yes they have one thing in common take taiwan learning from the sars outbreak in 2003 leave your client in when acted faster than many of her International Counterparts by banning travel from china early implementing Strict Health screenings and increasing the production off they smile off the result taiwan has recorded well under 500 cases so far astray an island nation with a similar size population has more than 10 times last. Then theres new zealand its leader just in the arden has been pursuing a strict policy of elimination the result. Our transmission right there is the number of cases that each person with the virus passes it on to its now 0. 48 we send her through some age overseas see ever it is 2. 5 people. We have amongst the lowest number of confirmed cases per 100000 people in the world another key feature of a successful response to the crisis not resting on your laurels after announcing a loosening of locked and measures in germany chancellor Angela Merkel continued to call for caution. All feel we do not yet know what the consequences of easing restrictions will be thats why we have to ox step by step slowly and cautiously. Not every female leader is a good crisis manager im not every male leader is a poor one but our early evidence from this pandemic suggests that being led by a woman could be good for our Nations Health and its wealth. Jennifer university of all clint your work focuses on women in politics i dont want to get into a battle over men versus women but tell me. Are women better at managing crises like this pandemic well i think the impression that certainly. Promulgation through the media at present but i think part of the reason why were seeing this debate happen as because women remain. Rather noble political leaders perhaps outside jimminy and also what were seeing as an increase in the number of younger women who are taking leadership at a time when we are seeing. Such a significant crisis so im not i wouldnt necessarily buy into the argument that women these ringback are managing crises its more that theres an increased number of women during what is this exceptional crisis than what weve seen in the end times past and therefore a higher percentage of female leaders who are doing a better job what the men learn from them that. Well i think part of the reason why ways seeing women and political leaders doing so well and then reported positively during this time is because there are several high profile matter leaders that are taking quite a contrast doing approach to managing this crisis and so some have reported this as a more of a rather grace of this is their only perhaps aggressive rhetorical approach one that some have portrayed as hyper masculine ringback and so the contrast between him to see to kick raise the loot Women Leaders and perhaps hive the mescal and male leaders is quite extreme and quite a contrast and so more noticeable youve pointed out that experts say women will pay a higher price due to this pandemic i thought the fatality rates higher among men i think it depends on what youre counting as. The impact of the pandemic so if that is one of the most severe outcomes that we say but were also seeing quite stringent policy responses in some countries including lockdowns thats whats happening here in new zealand and in other countries and so are we know when this happens when and take up the majority of kids giving their own story the expected to work from home and still manage the children a majority of healthy way because when and so they are as they are there are challenges in the space for women can be paid to me. Could this crisis help put the spotlight on women to highlight the extremely Important Role they play in society and perhaps even see more women move into the ship position. Well i certainly think that the role modeling and fate of mikkel in this crisis to our own Prime Minister just under a do and others is getting a message a symbolic and substandard mission to younger women politics and in Crisis Management as not to the fee that but i also think that the policy reconstruction thats going to have to help and and carbon purse card environment is going to its going to be challenging for policymakers to raise think and how theyre not just going to rebuild infrastructure and our case but also social infrastructure so there is a real opportunity for policy make as he had to reimagine a different way of of the economy working that values a lot of the work that women have done that hasnt been recognized as that it before particularly young. Women have have been undertaking that certainly propped up the pace in the past jessica director of the Public Policy institute at the university of oakland thank you thank you. Science editor there equal gibbs has also been busy answering questions again your queries on the current virus is what he had to say. Is the virus airborne. Theres a lot of debate on this question and the short answer is that at this point we dont really know the w. H. O. Continues to say that the primary way stars cove to transmits from person to person is via larger droplets and method when someone sneezes or coughs those are droplets that dont remain airborne for very long but can the virus also enter the air and infect others when someone who has it simply breathe out as much smaller droplets that scientists call aerosols aerosols remain suspended in the air for much longer than larger droplets to end and they travel further if we knew for sure they presented a danger we would have to make some fundamental changes to how were dealing with the disease but people who work in the field say proving airborne transmission will be a difficult task and the Scientific Evidence so far remains pretty mixed some studies say airborne transmission as the likely others say its less. A number of viruses can remain in the body even after infection hidden from the immune system disorders go through to do that what youre talking about are by risk as like hiv or ones from the herpes family after youve been infected with them theyre able to evade the immune system by entering the latent state though later in life they can and they do flare up again they they reactivate after south korea recently reported some patients who recovered from covert 19 had subsequently tested positive again for it experts have been scrambling to explain why and coronavirus latency and reactivation is seen as one possible explanation. In general most of the viral adjusts that ive read seem to think its unlikely as coronaviruses in general dont have life cycles that involve latency and reactivation but nobody including the w. H. O. Is ruling out the idea completely at this point. Can a steam sound in inactivates are supposed to. This was the folk remedy recommended by the president of belarus along with drinking lots of vodka unfortunately though neither of those remedies works taking a sauna wont prevent you from getting coated 19 and it wont cure you if you have it although the virus would be killed by prolonged exposure to high temperatures on surfaces your own core body temperature doesnt really change in the few minutes that youre in a sauna if it did you would die so although taking a sauna might help lighten your mood dont expect it to offer either prevention or cure and only do it if youre lucky enough to have a private sauna at home definitely stay away from any public facilities at the moment. You heard it from derek finally people around the world are looking for creative white string reach out to loved ones in quarantine like in brussels where this special bus will take a warm wishes to relatives in lockdown. Back. Into the conflict zone with jim sebastian. 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