Unfortunately, disinformation about and distrust in our medical system plays a significant role. Last monday i had the pleasure of speaking with dr. Lena wen, a visiting professor at the George Washington University School of Public Health. She previously served as the Health Commissioner for baltimore, where she led the nations oldest continuously operating Health Department to fight the weed epidemic, improve maternal fight the opioid epidemic, improve maternal and child health. She has been a leading voice for sciencebased policy during the pandemic. We spoke at length about the impacts of covid19 on communities of color in the u. S. [no audio] video to playave here. Thank you so much for joining us. I would like to start off by asking you about data we are seeing in terms of disparities in covid19 infection rates and outcomes for people of color in the United States. First of all, i am glad to join you and thank you for focusing on this critical topic. We know this disease is not a
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The Virtual Press briefing is an hour. The springto meetings 2020 Virtual Press bankrence with world president david malpass. President malpass will give weef opening remarks and will turn to your questions. Thank you to all the reporters from around the world who have been submitting questions. We may have to group some of to get through as many as we can and we may edit for brevitys sake. You send in questions, please submit only one per outlet. With that, president malpass, over to you. Malpass thank you and good morning to everyone. Im happy to speak to all of you. Wish the circumstances were not as grim. I would start by saying i hope you and your families are healthy and coping in these challenging times. To express my deepest condolences to the millions of around the world suffering from covid19 and who one to the loved pandemic. I just concluded a very virtual dialogue, low ouron virtual dialogue with Development Committee. I was joined by managing the i. M. F. And it was good
They usually report later. But we are very close to them, inally around number three the country per capita. We have done over 225,000 tests. Probably by the end of the day, we will be about 235,000 completed tests with results. One of the things we wanted to do early on was provide easy access for testing for folks. The first place we worked in conjunction with the Florida National guard and local officials was in Broward County when we did the first drivethrough testing site, one of the most successful sites that anyone has done in the country. We will have leaders from the National Guard, and watch to see the best practices. Uniformly they say this is one of the best. It has been incredibly successful. All of the drivein sites throughout florida have done 56,000 plus tests just in those drivethrough sites. People are being tested in the hospitals. They go to their doctor, the doctor will send it to a lab. That is happening all over the place. This has been a force multiplier for us.
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