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Discussion on the corona virus, the former Ebola Response coordinator under president obama. Live coverage from the center for American Progress on cspan2. Im pleased to welcome you to the center for American Progress. Im glad you could join us for this critically important conversation. The default for the coronavirus exceeds 3200 people, with 200 cases confirmed inside the United States. As Health Officials warn the coronavirus will ultimately become widespread in the United States, serious questions have emerged how the federal government is responding. Around the world countries are beginning to take significant measures including restricting tra ....
Good morning, everyone, im joanne meyers. 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 ....
Are thrilled to be here today we have a terrific lineup of speakers i will introduce momentarily the ceo of the vaccine alliance. First thank you to our colleagues who put this program together very carefully over many weeks and my partner catherine who we will hear from on the panel. This is a big year of replenishment you hear about that it is the second replenishment in the tenure of ceo data back to 2013 and in that. Reflecting on what has happened during his tenure it is remarkable. The amount of leadership and achievement and change we have seen over the course of this. A continuous process of reworking and improving the transition policy, we have Seen Movement of the institution to a concentrated discussion in advancing Health Security and promoting stockpiles to advance hpv vaccine and looking immunization across the entire lifespan. The institution has been graded at ....
Where they have Good Public Health system and you can make critiques about some aspects but china was able to jump on it quickly. That wasnt true in 2014 when people appeared in west africa. There was no Health System and for three months we were unable to know if it was evil and it turned into an explosive epidemic. We have to have no communities left out. We have to think of this not just as a development or equity issue but a Global Health security issue. If you get sick in one of those communities, you are likely to have side effects or die or have that disease spread among you. For all those reasons it is a good community. 75 , 13 large fractional countries, we are going to get granular with a metric, try to take away at that but also a metric on how those 0 dose children get incorporated into a system and we want ....
Serious questions have emerged about how the federal government is responding. Around the world, countries are beginning to take significant measures, including restricting travel, closing schools, post postponingous religious builder measures and quarantines. Critics say the Trump Administration has been slow to address the coronavirus crisis. The president and his team have been downplaying the risk, saying last week that everything would work out fine because the april,will go away by contradicting the c. D. C. Itself. We need to be it what to trust the information we get from the government and trust that the Trump Administration has best a trust that the Trump Administration exhausted years ago. There is no question that the president and his a administration are mismanaging their response. Preside ....