As of this morning, there were over 27 million confirmed cases covid19, and over 800,000 deaths. Have 6. 3 million confirmed cases and we are approaching 190,000 deaths. We have seen significant economic disruption to businesses and families and normal daytoday activities have been vastly altered. Leading experts have said we need a vaccine to return to normal. Which is why the topic of todays discussion is so critical. We will also discuss the lessons we are learning and developing a learning now in developing a covid19 vaccine, and the implications for future Vaccine Development. We have a short amount of time and a number of really terrific speakers. So why dont we go ahead and get started . Mark, why dont we begin with you. We have all heard about vaccines under development from pfizer, astrazeneca and the university of oxford, all of which are phasing phase three Clinical Trials. You have been working to develop a process to fasttrack safe and effective vaccines. Can you tell us w
Hopkins vaccine initiative. Also joining us is dr. Mike levine. He is at the university of Maryland School of medicine and the founder for the center of Vaccine Development. Dr. Powell off it, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at Childrens Hospital of philadelphia and professor of pediatrics at the university of Pennsylvania School of medicine. And Wilson Rooney the managing director of tr gp investment partners. You can ask our panelist questions using the q a feature and i am excited to get things started. Esther, i will turn it over to you. Thank you so much. Welcome and good afternoon to everyone. We have a terrific panel today. With leading experts to discuss the challenges related to Vaccine Development and the implication of the race to develop a covid19 vaccine or multiple vaccines. As of this morning, there were over 27 million confirmed cases of 2019 and ate her thousand deaths. In the u. S. , we have six point 3 million confirmed cases. We are approaching 190,000
Tasso to use or even fatalities. On monday chinas top policy advisor is expected to respond to the political crisis thats gripped the feel of a british territory for months the Hong Kong Government and protest is refusing to budge this rally is unlikely to be the last sarah clock aljazeera hong kong. Well the Hong Kong Government has accused some of the protestors of violence arson and putting the Public Safety at risk and a statement it said we strongly condemn the radical protestors who disregard the law and order and violently breach the public peace we will continue to give full support to the police and strictly enforce the law to stop all violent behaviors with a view to resuming public order as soon as possible. And still ahead on our do there an Opposition Leader jailed for calling protests in moscow is rushed to hospital well have the details. Possible tell you how livestock farming is contributing to what environmentalists are calling the climate emergency. However you may wo
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Syria is weve ended up with coalitions of a Major International power a local government or 2 and nonstate actors all working together in a fighting force on the ground so in russia you had russia the Syrian Government has below and various groups on the ground facing rebel groups the United States gulf supporters and sometimes turkey so these coalitions on both sides fighting each other you have the same thing in yemen and you have this now happening in every in libya youre starting to see it and theres direct not only direct involvement and western and russian and turkish and other of iranian other foreign governments not just supplying arms and but theyre actively fighting on the ground with their troops with their artillery units with their special forces and with their air forces its quite an extraordinary situation of all out warfare all combining states nonstate actors and foreign powers and theres nobody who can do anything about this so the thats the long answer to your questi