tv Time of Pandemics Al Jazeera April 12, 2022 3:00pm-4:01pm AST
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a center goals, place i on ouch is here. i have told stories, the funds were doing rebels and soldiers. it is a rare privilege to tell the stories of my own people to a global audience with your watching. i'll just hear, i'm daddy navigator with a check on your world headlines. ukraine says russia has nearly finished moving the military units. it needs into eastern positions for renewed offensive. much of the fighting is expected to focus on mario poll. the port city that's been bombarded since the start of the war. and russia has announced its soft ukrainian service men escaping from a steel plant in mario pole. up last night, april 11th, and murray, paul, the rest of the cranial troops surrounded the territory of the leech plant. a maiden unsuccessful attempt to escape from the city. a group of ukrainian servicemen
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numbered up to a 100 people in armoured vehicles. tried to break through from the territory of the plant and leave the city and in northern direction. this attempted breakthrough was thwarted by air and artillery strikes. russ, as president says, the conflict with ukraine was inevitable. it was just a matter of time. let him repute made the comment to a meeting, bella ruth, president, alexander lucas sankoh in the far east room with gloves looks as you need. unfortunately, ukraine was created as some kind of launch pad for aggression against russia, right? handling off shoots of nationalism, what totally cherished this new generation of ukrainian nationalists are especially clashing with russia. you see how nazi ideology became a fact of life in ukraine. it was unavoidable. we are taking steps to provide security for russia. we didn't have any other choice. we did the right thing,
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and i have no doubt that our aims will be achieved. or rushing back. separates us forces are rejecting allegations. chemical weapons were used in their attempts to seize mario poll, ukrainian politician ivana clim per, says. moscow or its allies use the quote, unknown substance which cause people to suffer respiratory failure. no evidence has been put forward. excuse me. the u. k is armed forces minister says they can't yet verify the allegations. so i'm afraid that we know nothing more than than you've been able to report which is that there was some report circulating on ukrainian social media yesterday evening. that chemical weapons had been used in mary paul overnight. that's not something that defense intelligence here in london have been able to confirm nor any of their intelligence count offs in with our allies around the world. and indeed, pleasant presidents. lensky address last night, also referred to report. so there's been no verification within the ukrainian system. etha is really forth us, her fire tear vows, rubber bullets,
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set palestinian students inside a university campus and they occupied westbank, palestinian red crescent, says dozens have been injured. witnesses say the violence began in the morning inside a duty university that's near to cut him not far from the separation wall. the u. s . has told non emergency staff to leave shanghai because of a surgeon cove in 1900 cases as well as china's handling of the outbreak. beijing has been criticized for what it's done to control the virus. it's now using restrictions. in some neighborhoods. the city is 26000000 people have been put under stress, locked down for 2 weeks. sterling cars defaulting on $51000000000.00 of external death as it waits for a bailout from the international monetary fund. it's finance ministry says it's a last resort as an economic crisis that calls weeks of protest, deepen, official say the move will preserve foreign reserves for food and fuel import. and
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he just parliament has approved along the way to bill to tackle sexual violence. the law will provide a comprehensive legal framework for cases of sexual abuse. victims will receive compensation as well as psychological supports. the number of dead from tropical storm meggy in the philippines has risen to 42. rain is hampering evacuations from flooded villages in the central and southern region seems are searching for survivors in several towns hit by mud slides. about $300000.00 families have been displaced in what's the 1st major storm in the philippines this year? the flooding in south africa, causal in a tall province, and it's killed at least 20 people. several others are missing. heavy rains destroyed buildings and swept away roads. some homes have been burried in much lights. those are the headlines on al jazeera up. next, it's time of pandemic. thanks for watching. bye bye. for now. ah
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ah, presently we're being confronted by a new series of pathogens that are emerging out of the deep forest. primarily because planet earth is better known now as planet far life. animals that are read the ward for av pathogens are coming up right up against new agriculture spilling over into the livestock. and then from there, spreading out onto the global travel
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science is in the middle of a political battle. what direction are we going to continue to conduct our civilization? are we going to continue on this pathway? or are we going to choose a different path in the path that the lends itself to have a better balance between our right to be here on the planet and survive. and the animals and landscape upon which we depend in order to do that. with human societies have long faced the threats with disease. and despite so many breakthroughs in modern medicine, we find ourselves living under the shadow of pandemic. so we struggle to contend we have destroyed oh, by that,
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we have harmed the plan and the planet will heave itself at our expense at the expense of these global market rules. it's just an inevitable. the worry is that there's no handle. this thing is going to be a force all of its own southern africa. i saw recently live series, the worst impacts with the h. i. v. pandemic. millions of people have died. millions of lives have been turned upside down. and then along comes covert and we have another pandemic to
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tackle on top of h r v the h i v experience taught us a lot about science, vaccines and healthy justice. but when it comes to cove dine t, did the world learn anything from us? ah, before i became a filmmaker, i worked in h. i v. prevention. oh, back then. hard lessons were learned. not just in south africa, but globally. we loved the few people suffer and die whether strong commitment to public health and that where this the political will, every one can have access to the medicine they need. as i said, we learned this the hard way an ugly off to a lot of unnecessary suffering. that is now
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a danger that has become a threat to his old. it is a deadly disease, and there is no known cure so far as being confined to small groups. but it's spreading. if you ignore aids, it could be the death of me said don't die of ignorance. many roasts were 1st introduced to h. r. v. through this kind of messaging, the implication was, if you become infected, you only have yourself to blame to the people who are most affected by h r. v was somehow narrowed down to the for h's. according to the u. s. center for disease control in the 1980s. these were homosexuals, patient's parent, alex, and whom affiliate or
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we were told, the virus originated in as the monkey, which we now know to be true. with the lack of information about how the virus jumped from one species to another, led to some pretty offensive conclusions and stoked the blame game to the emerging health crisis. we were going to fix the subject matter if so arb seen so revolting until we are ready to discourage and do our dear level best to eliminate the types of activities which have caused the spread of the aids epidemic. god. normally, wherever gonzalez, 1978 representatives of 134 countries, 67 international organizations. and i've also asked h h s to add the aids virus to the list of contagious diseases, for which emigrants and alien seeking permanent residents in the united states can be denied entry. ah,
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so when you ask, what does h i v was aids. the question is, does a virus cause and syndrome? how does a virus cause a syndrome? it con, in the 19 ninety's and becky had argued against the science and was deeply skeptical of anti retroviral drugs. well enough, forgotten. his argument was a h r. v was part of a continuing conspiracy against africans. treatment of aids was declared near impossible, impractical and not cost effective. dod, i'm good on deep the nihilism and lame. he was so adamant about her toxic intervals were that it almost seemed that he would do
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anything in his power never to allow them to be used in south africa. yet more children have been infected with h. i v in south africa over this today conference then will be infected in other, the united kingdom or the us in the whole of this year. and i think that's an important and frustration was running high because richer nations had the access to the new drugs developed to treat h r v. but not south africa. not unless you had lots of money that is for most of us, h r v infection was a death sentence. we had to fight medical schools really hard around the exclusion that they had about which person was considered innocent enough to access a r v. as those were regarded as nurses who had needle stick injury,
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somebody who was raped could access our means, but not somebody who was gay. that somebody who had consensual sex and men became h. i v positive. those are really difficult in dock times. and i think as a young lawyer activist, it really opened my eyes the face of us dot does doesn't lie with science. the failure of not treating a chevy lies and in the political will of all a government to cheap disciplines. it was a difficult time. it to powell of the people through the treatment action campaign to make a r v trip. not the reality. we demanding the not a square to our last dominion
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as well as problem big. he tried to deny the existence of treatment action campaign put up the entire miserable effect of aids, frightened, his face. it is devastating family and community or wyoming and depleting, health care services. and robin school. oh, both your dental and vision. in the course of a few years, the treatment action campaign i did by former president nelson mandela, ensure that this is she was firmly placed on the international agenda. as the lead is of the global health response president george bush onset by championing their charitable efforts the doctrine rural south africa describes his
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frustration. he says we have no medicines, many hospitals tell people you've got age. we can't help you go home and die in an age or miraculous medicines. no person should have to hear those words. the program spearheaded by doctor antony found she it benefited from the decision one of the major companies to drop the payton's voluntarily. this led to drugs being made available at a fraction of the price, but just for the developing world. for millions around the globe, the aid came too late. in south africa alone, we currently have 9000000 people who are h i v positive july 20. and will and
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of the spot having one of the largest intuitive all programs in the world. we still have not been able to control a chevy transmission so just in terms of what's done. and so i turned my attention to working in a shabby vaccine so that we could find effective ways to prevent transmission. i'm so glad that you've chosen to participate in the study. thank you for contributing to finding solutions personally for myself at home, linda or my whole family. i get a bill emotional when i'm, when i'm talking about h i v was my mother, my father. my uncle's, everyone. so we suffered a lot when i lost my parents are cause of the ha,
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how do you owe us health me. my husband was one. it's well we are to got to go live with people. yes. good, big food from people because of h i v, i understand if my mother was still alive, my parents until i my life and of chain. so h o v is i don't know how to explain, i'm very scared of h i v. so that's why i will is what, when i try to something those can i help in the future for this it has to be creep in tipt glenda gray is leading an international collaboration to find at h. i v vaccine spearheaded by the h i v vaccine trout network. larry curry hedge up this vast organization there is publicly funded through the u. s. government.
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vaccines had been left to the development by pharmaceutical companies, bailey essence, with the side. what vaccines they were gonna invest in and the reality is, is that that often is the balance between their perceived market hands. societal need to be a good catholic in h, i v. it was a huge the sale the need. there is an enormous amount of infection in the under developed world and the non pharmaceutical market. well. so you saw very rapid drop out rapid dis, investment one really needed to provide the clinical infrastructure to do the clinical trial. this is the most expensive part of doing drug development
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and we are going to, as a society, create an infrastructure i'm learning about the wanda of antibody mediated prevention, a clinical trial with the most beautiful cutting edge vaccine science. it is taken decades to develop something that targets h o. v's unique ability to evade a traditional vaccine. it feels like we're on the cusp of something really big here. the reason we call it number one will be our seo. why was the 1st potent antibody that we were able to obtain from
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one of the volunteers turned out to be an individual who was in clinical trials volunteering at an age donated his blood. and the serum had these tremendously potent antibodies against the virus. he was happy to volunteer and he knew that we isolated his body from the time and when that was done, several apps found and we're actually able to make the lab protein, the body protein that was able to kill block each very pump. recommend in the amp study, we're not giving a vaccine, we're actually giving the antibody protein itself. if a person individual had those antibodies before they were actually exposed, it could be completely prevented from exception. so we're almost taking a step beyond vaccine or skipping
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a step and actually giving the body the immune proteins itself. the humanist sub this, that someone who has h i v infection could actually provide someone who doesn't have h, i v infection to actually prevent them from getting which idea what a wonderful story. what about what a while? no fall example of biology. the genesis of this undertaking started on a napkin on the 19th floor of this hotel. we sit down and sort of draw a napkin like how would we test this was end up being a pretty massive undertaking. global pandemic sneak global effort more. so when you're dealing with viruses that are rapidly mutating the reason we know what we know today's because scientists have
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cooperated across many countries. patropolis, we've been moving increasingly in the direction, research becoming a private affair. determined by competition and exclusivity. the big take out from h r. v was the only massive investment into public health. the sharing research could contain a deadly pandemic. in 2020 this put us in a prime position to collaborate in numerous international coverage track, seen travels to have been involved in a whole lot of current texting opportunities in 10, something technically said. and we need to make sure that even though we do these trials, we have to make sure that we have access to make sure they found to be
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in the cases with good then does it get better? hey, just make it for. yeah, i so we have to be committed to the end game. yeah. and the end game is an affordable intervention for the put it feels like a festival. when we started with h, i v, it was very difficult to isolate an antibody from a person in 20192020, which do that in a matter of weeks. we can do it 10 times a 100 times faster. and more officially,
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we have isolated antibodies from cove. it infected people by the hundreds in a few weeks. i think of h, i v a little bit like the nasa space program. it, it brought to bear all kinds of technologies that are bearing fruit in other areas . and one of those areas is emerging viruses like coding the biotech firm, modernity, therapeutics announced this morning that the 1st 8 participants in the 1st phase of its covert 19 vaccine trial. develops some antibodies after just one single dose. now that's a promising sign from the trial. done in collaboration with the national institutes of health. nations, with vaccine producing capacity pulled billions into the development of covey track seems in return for funding. the manufacturer of vaccines participating drug companies like madonna, were given full intellectual property rights over the finished product.
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government have essentially started to de risk investment. and in an ideal world, public money should be greater public access. tens of thousands of volunteers signed up to participate in clinical trials. i to joint one of the trials in the beliefs of my country would gain access to those vaccines. that was successful. ah, but now we've got the us get his or baby fort fixing in france from 3 of the leading groups that are developing vix yes. so that means our opportunity to gain access to the threat since are very limited as an individual country. this was
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perhaps the 1st sign that things were going astray with south africa's access to vaccines. as a middle income country and one so involved in vaccine development. there was no excuse for us not to have pre purchase supplies for our own population. still, there would always be kovacs, a kovacs pillar aims to ensure that every country gets fair and equitable access to eventual cove at 19 vaccines. it's not about one country versus another. it's about one world. protected. sitting at the center of infectious disease control is tony foul, cheap for decades. he's been behind all the key interventions that have
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prevented outbreaks from becoming global pandemic. a boda zacko sauce, you name it, but his life's work. his passion has centers around h. r. v. excuse that academic priority should ever ever come for the health of the people that you're working with is a question about that full of struggles full of pleasure. no. so the reward was obama labeled and went full full in with them as, as he, i'm with me. she blew in with got asia, me boy, a. but when i get a our brownfield, an intimate look at life in cuba. me. bo awesome thought lacrosse. i got my boss hang me way and i humana, but also to tell me who i am may hang that my cuba. at this time on al jazeera in 2018, a journalist lead 40 days of civic action against the armenian government,
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a world for you. but everyone ah, this is al jazeera, i'm telling you navigator with a check on your world headlines. ukraine says russia has nearly finished moving. the military units needs into eastern positions for renewed offensive. what's the fighting is expected in mario poll, the port city that's been bombarded since the start of the war. russia says it stopped ukrainian service min escaping from a steel plant in mario pull up. last night. april 11th in murray. paul, the rest of the cranial troops surrounded the territory of the elite plant and maiden unsuccessful attempt to escape from the city. a group of ukrainian
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servicemen numbering up to a 100 people in armored vehicles tried to break through from the territory of the plant and leave the city in a northern direction. this attempted breakthrough was thwarted by air and artillery strikes or rather precedence as the conflict with ukraine was inevitable. it was just a matter of time fluttering future meet the commented meeting bella. ruth, president, alexander lucas. shank. oh, in the far east greenwich associates. but unfortunately, ukraine was created some kind of launch pad for aggression against russia. and we off shoots of nationalism. what totally cherished this new generation of ukrainian nationalists are especially clashing with russia. you see how not the ideology became a fact of life and ukraine. it was unavoidable. we are taking steps to provide security for russia. we didn't have any other choice. we did the right thing and i have no doubt that how it aims will be achieved. has really forces
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a fire at your gas on rubber bullets at palestinian students inside a university campus in the occupied west bank. the palestinian red crescent says dozens, i've been injured. witnesses say violence began in the morning inside car dury university in europe will cut him. it's not far from the separation wall. the u. s . has told non emergency staff to leave shanghai, shanghai because of a surgeon cove in 1900 cases, as well as china's handling of the outbreak. beijing has been criticized for what it's done to control the virus. it's not easy restrictions. in some neighborhoods, the city is 26000000 people have been under strict lawson for 2 weeks in lebanon, at least one person has been killed. 7 wounded in an explosion near the southern port city of size on the bloss demolished a building that served as a scout center for. the political party does have had lines on al jazeera, the news news hour has at the top of the hour, but up next it's time of pandemic, but by ah,
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science vaccines, healthy justice, i'm trying to find out if the world learned anything from r h, i v experienced in south africa. for this time of global coven, 19 human societies have long faced the threats of disease. and despite so many breakthroughs in modern medicine, we find ourselves living under the shadow of pandemic that we struggle to contain. the phoenix, useful than an academic priority should ever ever come before the health of the people that you're working with is the question about that. sitting at the center of infectious disease control is tony found she for decades, he's been behind all for key interventions that have prevented outbreaks from becoming global pandemic. ebola zacko sauce. you name it, but his life's work. his passion has centers around h. r. v. want to this,
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wanted to that, wanted you to that wanted to that you have to play are the most successful vaccines or against diseases in which ultimately the immune system clears the virus . so when you do a vaccine, you design it exactly to act like a natural infection. don't want to do that with each id because you know, that natural infection doesn't reduce the good immune response. so you got to do better with ha, ah, no matching some lesson hasn't sommerling his a sort of madison. hi guys, slow by monday, but to me companies go
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up there. no m m, i z a wonderful pile. i was on for no siblings is a condo known being language when i was so delorenzo tele medicine and i give an i know by little sometimes is of a positive. yeah. was intelligent void. hey, good thing. we didn't on my, in the q i known as to soc with a couple of either a previously, if visit i would allocate or i would say about it. so total perform wanna know how much i was willing is just the st angelo mckesson sub, what day? it was the kitchen piano, a vaccine is the agent that woman need. it's the agency. we don't have to worry about applying a chevy because you have something in your body to protect it. as an empowerment tool.
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with the thought in mind that covered an h, i v are only 2 of the many zonati viruses that have jumped into humans. we need to know why in recent decades, this is happening with increasing occurrence. presently we're being confronted by a new series of pathogens that are emerging out of the deep force and spilling over into human populations. and that seems to be increasing since the start of the century. there's been some brilliant work done by scientists to illuminate the
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origins of h. i. b. but trees han and her group in 2006, we're able to identify 2 chimp populations in southeastern cameron that were hosting simian immunodeficiency viruses, that were the closest related to h i. b, one a group of that follow 2 years layer led by michael or a b, were able to put a date on that spill over event. the event happened in 19 o 8 gifford take 20 years on either side of bad what was going on in 19 o. 8, in this particular spot, in southeastern camera. it was a period of a colonization, and you had the french and germans attempting to subjugate a local indigenous groups into a new global economy. the login of
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central africa is rain for us, required a large workforce to keep up with the demands for exports from the global north to feed all these workers corporations actually employed paypal mass to hunt down, push meet ah they will probably individual jumps of virus from chimps, the humans, because they use it as bush me. a man gets infected. he's out hunting with jim. he gives it to his wife. she gets affected there monogamous. they both get sick. they both die. you don't notice until you perturbed civilization.
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it could have happened 50 years ago a 100 years ago, 200 years ago. but it happened with the right constellation of perturbing society. people are doing trucking. they stay away from home. just the normal practices of your society, lead to the spread of infectious disease. ah, st flat, tory lance, can be shifted upon colbert 19,
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thorns one emerged in 2002. it came out of bats and central china, and a lot of work since then mapped out all the different types of corona viruses, cross central and southern china. increase exploitation, the landscape increased that spill over events into all sorts of other species that are suddenly finding themselves being sold at market ah, planted, heard is better know now as planet farm there's a lot of focus on the gps coordinates, the actual spot in which the virus emerged in the focus that was serving as a means of green washing the broader global vertical economy. that was,
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in fact driving the emergence of these new pathogen. we began to look at what a call circuits of capital, our capital moods on one side of the world to the other. we came to the conclusion that places like london and new york, hong kong which are the centers of capital, are the worst disease hotspots on the planet. in part because as being the source of the capital, driving the deforestation and development from one side of the world to the other, they were serving as the primary causes for the spill over events of pathogens from wildlife into life stuck in humans with . and then one day, a virus jumps from a debt to another animal to be human. and then now it's not sexual practice. we're
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unlucky enough to have a virus that spectacularly efficient in spreading from person to person by the respiratory route. and there's not much you can do about that, but as you guys would do in an effort to locking yourselves into your house, but you can't do that forever. and that's so a respiratory infection spreads. every time we have an epidemic that's just an affirmation of our seamless we all have the receptor for the virus and i house but the fuel or the virus is density. the fuel virus is close. interpersonal contact. people who live in high density so is this fairness of brought out l, magnified in all populations throughout the world?
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you got to understand the social determinants of health. you know, in the united states with cove it, we have an extraordinary disparity. where is african americans and latinos, x and asian americans? their infection rate and death rate is enormously higher. ah. so when you broaching a disease, you need to understand that if you don't understand that, you're not gonna get your arms around the disease. and for many ross, particularly if you're black and pool, it doesn't matter if you are in the global south or living in a wealthy nation. you're hanging on to life by a threat. then these pan tamika come along, covered a chart, v and the o it's against you to stack up. ah
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ah, how do we manage an epidemic when we have no support for the poor? and we have no support for the sick. and so not only are we going to see people dying from cove at 19 in our country, we're going to see people dying from other diseases like h. harvey and t. b. new york state now has more reported corona virus cases than any country in the world. world wide, it's clear. the public healthcare systems are the last fortress against pandemic,
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watts. at burton and in the united states, the pioneer privatization coverage is showing up their ladies to come modify the social right to house the u. s. was now prepared for this pandemic. it had in effect, abandon of public health of the cove at 19 outbreak. show this in open ah clarity. when the trump administration took over, he ended the pandemic preparation. he divested out of public health. that's impart how we've arrived, that this apparent clash between science on the one hand and from on the other. ah, when i catch up with toby, found him, he remains diplomatic about the deep riffs that fall between him and the then
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president. we were consider the best prepared country for a pin them. but as it turns out, when you get a walker, like coven 19, you never as prepared as you really want to be. so that was the tension that sort of merged into some political divisiveness in the country. so 28000000 americans are without insurance, even after obamacare. 24000000 americans are under insured. o swats of the country are in essence disconnected out our of our capacity to intervene in their health enough. oh, ah, can you tell me i
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h r v vaccine to get where it is. but with covered with, we're looking in the end of this year. well, it's been more than a decade rad. we started that vaccine were in nature. the 1986 is 7. the amp study. if it works, if we do get protection, will be the 1st in a multi step process of getting very good protection my pearson transmitted in definitely worth the investment. particularly among women in south africa who were at such enormous risk of getting infected at around the same time as the 1st covey vaccines were gaining emergency approval. early results of the ab trav were released,
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providing some hope at last for an h r v vaccine. to now i'm going to show you the results you came in. okay? so this shows you that the, that they infection rate was lower e in the, in the treatment arms, and then fusion arms and shows us that the infusion dead were cookies surround, they would say is that then she had positive, a positive result. very happy is an amazing, amazing, well, this is a legacy t your parents. okay. so by volunteering and letting them
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with the good results coming out of the i'm trial a vaccine that prevents h r v is finally insight. but what will this really mean for the world's poor? who's a vaccine get to the people who need it? or like covert will, peyton's be used to limit supplies, ensuring higher profits for a small group of powerful companies. there is a growing concerned as we end 2020, about why it is taking so long for the country to receive the coven 19 vaccine. the entire world has promised solid guarantee at the beginning of this pandemic. but at the same time, rich country is what already buying up supplies, what we call the advance market commitments, or pre dosages of something that was not checked on the market. 13 percent of the
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world's population who reside in rich countries had bought up more than half of the wells potential supply of vaccine. this current vaccine nation is a new, a new to vaccine nationalism they bought for their own countries. in fact, some cases to create one cuz even 5 times the amount that's required for the population gentle do any comes to other vaccines at their premium, to use into public immunization programs against life threatening diseases thick and can to 20 years before those vaccines become available. in low income countries, compared to indian could you can high income countries. this is where we were with the h. i. v. pandemic. 8 years after the therapeutics were available in the west. we have not received them. and we lost 10000000 people. is the old movie again. we have no access to vaccines
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are mm. we will let down the garden pass. okay, we got to december believing that the whole world was coming together to purchase vaccines. not knowing that we had been curled into a little corner, whilst others ran off and secured the supplies. it was deliberate. those with the resources pushed their way to the front of the queue and took control of their production assets. the same thing they paid out in h i v aids. if you rely on charity and if you rely only on the benevolence on the pharmaceutical industry, you won't secure nothing. and in hindsight, to take such
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a risk to pack a whole, nation's health and welfare on charity at york seems crazy to me. especially as we know that some variance are causing worldwide concern because of their ability to dodge antibodies. surely the same thing to do would be to flood the world with vaccines to get the virus less room to mutate. viruses do not mutate unless they are allowed to replicate and spread. if you prevent the virus from spreading, it will not you take and you will not get another very using the idea of this being a gigantic clinical trial. dr. glenda gray and professor larry curry, organize a shipment of 500000 vaccines into south africa. that would work against the varied
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dominant at the time. i'm beginning to overwhelm our hospitals. long, long, long, long, day, along a long, 14 days. hopefully we'll be able to fix needs. half a 1000000 health care with is that we then get the vaccine to them that before the 3rd wave, their game to be burnt off. is this going to be misery? we have millions of immunosuppressed people in our country and these millions are potential ways of was for variance of concern . africa becomes this cesspool of variance of concern. and we don't have vaccines. and so i think that this going to get worse and worse
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throughout africa. we have seen that wherever h i v became endemic. so did tuberculosis. the waves of infectious diseases are influencing each other. at the same time, the higher the burden of disease, the more public health systems get on the mind. then because we can't care for our sick, we are threatened by deadly mutations that one day may not be able to respond to our vaccines at all. this is a vicious circle, playing out in our life time with deadly consequences for the entire whoa. the patents prevented people getting h i v medicine were devastating for the global south. the failure to learn this with cover it has in my view, been nothing less than
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a crime against humanity. it's some be capitalism marching us towards our mutual destruction. surely it's time we finally break our dependency on the pharmaceutical companies as we began to do so 20 years ago with h i v drugs to water society learnt from this time offender mics that we have encroached upon nature to the extent that now it's only a matter of time before we face another threat, that seems clear enough. but what about the more difficult issue of how prepared we are for what to come
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cove, it has revealed that account approach to public health is simply not working. maybe this is our last chance to go back to an older path. we once traveled health as a basic right. not letting the market determine who gets access to innovation. not treating the global south as a charity case and turning us into a petri dish of variance. not letting the crest for profit the dust all further into catastrophe. is it really such a radical idea to foot people 1st? oh ah
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wherever you go in the world, one airline goes to make it feel exceptional. katara always going places together. the journey has begun. the faithful world copies on its way to kat group. your travel package today. hello, we got more writing the forecast for paris. why pushing across into worse. se parts of brazil just see some slightly dry weather now. pushing into nolan, areas of argentina over the next day or so, but i was intention samples. you still see that line of 50 showers there for tuesday, afternoon, heavy showers to further north. of course, up towards the amazon basin. more wet weather lingering, hare pushed a little farther south, which as we go on into widest i, you see how those sundry down poles they are set to rumble away as we go one through the mid part of the way. there not too many heavy downpours across the caribbean on places say, but we got some live showers for some or the west sunshine than showers to wet weather will be towards cuba, haiti, dominican republic, might catch
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a shower or 2 in jamaica, particularly through tuesday eastern alice on the other hand, generally fine and dryly wanted to shout creeping here for wednesday. some showers there too, for costa rica from the kirk. you are not too bad into mexico, that things do look quite bad. meanwhile, across sir parts of north america, good part of north america. i will make style. so be seen this wintry weather podding out of the north west. that's making its way further. east was picking up some very warm moist air out of the gulf of mexico. the 2 joined together with severe storms and politic conditions. the central canada hatta air with issue ally of the journey, anti fascist anti establishment, and pro vanilla. despite the recent official disbanding of its militarized wing, a basque separatist movement is found alive and well on the terraces of a bill, bows stadia a place where political revolutionaries share
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