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mm. hello, eleanor taylor, nothing but a look at the top stories on our sara. thousands of migrants escaping poverty, violence and political repression in central america a being given a new legal pathway to the u. s. president joe biden has unveiled a new plan to allow people from haiti, cuba, nicaragua, and venezuela to work in the us. but at the same time, he warned those trying to enter illegally will be immediately turned away. under the pandemic era title 40 to order, people hoping to join the program cute at border authority offices in mexico following the announcement. biden's plan will only include those who fly into the country and people will have to be financially sponsored. my message is this. if you're trying to leave cuba, nicaragua, haiti do have her and we, or have agreed to began a journey to america. do not do not just show up at the border state where you
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are and apply illegally from there starting today. if you don't apply to the legal process, you will not be eligible for this new parole program. white house correspondent can be how kit has one of us president in the nutshell, is trying to achieve some semblance of order at the us border with mexico. given the fact that since he took office, the number of illegal crossings into the united states has surged up at least 37 percent. and there really has been some wood described chaos at the border. and this has have been a tremendous strain on not only the border security at the border, but also the various facilities, whether it be the hospitals in the local regions, the schools, the police forces. and so it has been an enormous task in trying to get this under control. a senior ukrainian official has dismissed
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a proposal by russia's president vladimir putin for 36 out truce. who didn't order his defense minister to impose a temporary cease fire starting on friday to correspond with the orthodox christmas holiday. the criminal is calling on ukraine's forces to lay down their weapons too . but keith immediately rejected the call with a presidential adviser denouncing the proposal as hypocrisy and propaganda. us republican kevin mccarthy appears to have lost his bid to become the speaker for an 8th time. a group of conservative republicans continued to block him from the ro because he is now under growing pressure from both republicans and democrats. to find a vote she needs or stepped down what you've got for those news to 3rd day. and the house is unable to govern until speakers chosen violence interrupted in northwestern mexico to the son of notorious mexican drug, lord and chuckle was arrested video guzman lopez was taken into custody in the city
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of korea county on wednesday night. basic and security forces previously arrested him in 2019, but he was later released over fears of violence. he thought to be a high ranking member of the st. louis carto, which is one of the largest drug trafficking organizations in the world. when you're a rock, lewis, following developments from mexico city, a by all accounts as does appear to be wide spread. it does not appear to be isolated only in the city of, of cool you can, but in other cities and towns across the state of seen a lower. again, we can confirm that a video guzman has been captured. he is known as one of the more high ranking officials within this organization. within the last few hours, there is also we should note a video that's been circulating on social media of passengers aboard a commercial airline board, an air mexico of flight that was about to take off from the city of cooley, a con when it was impacted by a bullet, the airline i domenico has confirmed this incident very sort of troubling images
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of the passengers aboard that plane as seeking cover. israel is released at the longest serving palestinian prisoner after 40 years in jail cream. eunice was convicted of killing an israeli soldier in the golan heights in 1083. he was initially sentenced to life imprisonment. the sentence was later commuted. security officials have forbidden his family from holding celebrations to mark his release. to stay with us, the time of pandemic is program coming next. when you see, after that i finance ah presently we are being confronted by a new series of pathogens that are emerging out of the deep forest.
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primarily because planet earth is better known now as planet farm animals that are reservoirs for our pathogens are coming up right up against new agriculture spilling over into the livestock. and then from there, spreading out onto the global travel 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
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a better balance between our right to be here on the planet and survive and the animals and landscape of on which we depend in order to do that. human societies have long faced the threats of disease despite so many breakthroughs in modern medicine. we find ourselves living under the shadow of pandemic that we struggle to contain. we have destroyed our by that we have harmed the plant and the planet. will he sell at our expense at the expense of these global marketers? 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
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africa i saw recently live series, the worst impacts, 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 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
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h. i v. prevention back then. hard lessons were learned. not just in south africa, but globally. we let the few people suffer and die, weather 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 learn this the hard way an ugly off to a lot of unnecessary suffering. that is now a danger that has become a threat to us all. it is a deadly disease and there is no known cure so far. it's 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 roast were 1st
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introduced to h r v. through this kind of messaging, the implication was, if you become infected, you only have yourself to blame the people who are most affected by h i. 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 are fully or we were told to 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've got to fix the
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subject matter if so obscene, so remoting 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 aid. lever them a god only wherever, going to solving 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 you so when you ask the question, does h i v was aids questioning? does a virus cause and syndrome?
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how does a virus cause a syndrome it ah, in the 19 nineties and becky had argued against the science and was deeply skeptical of anti retroviral drugs. well enough again, his argument was that h r v was part of a continuing conspiracy against africans. treatment of aids was declared, dear, impossible, of impractical and not cost effective. dod. i'm blue head on deep the nihilism and blame. he was so adamant about her toxic intervals were that it almost seemed that he would do anything in his power never to allow them to be used in south africa, yet more to than have been infected with h of in south africa over this today. conference then will be infected in other,
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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 a 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, somebody who was raped could excess al means, but not somebody who was gay. that somebody who had consensual sex and men became h. i v positive. those are really difficult and dock times. and i think as a young lawyer activist, it really opened my eyes. the
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face of us dog does doesn't lie with science. the failure of not treating a chevy lies and in the political will of all a government to cheat this it was a difficult time. it to the power of the people through the treatment action campaign to make a our re treatment the reality we demanding that i know the square to our last dominion as well as problem. becky tried to deny the existence of treatment action campaign put up the entire miserable effect of aids strike in the space.
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it is devastating from maloof and community or wyoming and deprecating health care services. and robin school. oh, your drones and feature. in the course of a few years, the treatment action campaign aided by former president nelson mandela, ensure that she, she was firmly placed on the international agenda. as the leaders of the global health response president george bush, i'll say, but championing their child to pull efforts doctrine, rural south africa describes his 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,
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no person should have to hear those words. the programs be headed by doctor antony found she. it benefited from the decision, one of the major companies to drop by peyton'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 to late. in south africa alone, we currently have 9000000 people who are h i v positive my twin and will and i'm at the time in the ninety's. there were no pause. you see a peasant changing to a skeleton uses me so scary. so yeah, i h o v, i don't know when i'm lessons of the grid was
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a chevy vaccine research 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 is i get very emotional when i'm, when i'm talking about ha b was my mother, my father. my uncle's, everyone. so we suffered a lot when i lost my parents because of the ha, how do you help me with this was one of 12. we had to go to go live with people. yes, we got big food from people because of h i v. i understand if my mother was still alive, my parents until i my life would have changed. so h o v is i don't know how to explain. i'm very scared of
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a heavy 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 prevented. glenda gray is leading an international collaboration to find an h. i. v vaccine spearheaded by the h i v. vaccine trout network. larry curry hedge up this vast organization that is publicly funded for the us government. vaccines had been left to the development by pharmaceutical companies. bailey essence, with the side. what vaccines they were going to investigate. and the reality is,
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is that that often is a balance between their perceived market and societal need. 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. we're 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. and we are going to, as a society, create an infrastructure i'm
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learning about the wonder of antibody mediated prevention, a clinical trial with the most beautiful cutting edge track seen signs. it is taken decades to develop something the 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 of your seal, why was the 1st potent antibody that we were able to obtain from 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 the santa by the time and when that
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was done several laps found and were actually able to make in the lab protein. the antibody protein that was able to kill block h, i v, very potent where recommends using those in the amp study, we're not giving a vaccine, we're actually giving the antibody protein itself. if a person, an individual had those air bodies before they were actually exposed, it could be completely prevented from infection. so we're almost, i'm taking a step beyond a vaccine or skipping a step and actually giving the body the immune proteins itself. the humanness of 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 i deep. what a wonderful story, what a, what a while, no fall example of biology. the
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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 cooperated across many countries patropolis we've been moving increasingly in the direction of research becoming a private affair. determined by competition. and exclusivity the big take out from
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h r. v was the only massive investment into public health when sharing research could contain a deadly pandemic. in 2020, this put us in a prime position to collaborate in numerous international coverage. vaccine trials with to have been involved in a whole lot of kind of texting opportunities in terms of doing 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 if the case with
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them doesn't 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 poor. i feels like a festival. when we started with h i v, it was very difficult to isolate an antibody from a person in 20192020. we can do that in a matter of weeks. we can do it 10 times a 100 times faster. and more officially, 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 kogan,
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the biotech firm, modernity therapeutics announced this morning that the 1st 8 participants in the 1st phase of its cove at 19 back seen 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 hell. nations with vaccine producing capacity pulled billions into the development of cove with vaccines in return for funding the manufacture of vaccines participating drug companies like madonna were given full intellectual property rights over the finished product. gov mugs have essentially stepped into the risk investment and in an ideal world, public money should be greater public access.
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tens of thousands of volunteers signed up to participate in clinical trials. i to joint one of the trolls in the beliefs of my country would gain access to those vaccines. that was successful. ah right now we've got the us get his or baby fort fixing in france from 3 of the leading groups that are developing vaccines. so that means our opportunity to gain access to the threat since our very low it is an individual country. this was 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,
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there would always be kovacs. the kovacs pillar aims to ensure that every country gets fair and equitable access to eventual coven 19 vaccines. it's not about one country versus another. it's about one world, protected. sitting at the center of infectious disease control because tony found she could decades, he's been behind all the key interventions that have prevented outbreaks from becoming global pandemic. ebola zacko saws you name it, but his life's work. his passion has sent his around h r. v. in, excuse that an academic priority should ever ever come for the health of the people
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ah and whom learn tainer. and on the look at the top stories on our era, thousands of migrants escaping poverty, violence and political repression in central america a being given a new legal pathway to the u. s. president joe biden has unveiled a plan to allow people from haiti, cuba, nicaragua, and venezuela to work in the us. but at the same time, he warned those trying to enter it illegally will be immediately turned away. under the pandemic era title 40 to order. people hoping to join the program cute at border authority offices in mexico following the announcement. and plan will only include those who fly into the country and people will have to be financially sponsored. my messages this. if you're trying to leave cuban nicaragua, haiti do have, and we are have agreed to begin
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a journey to america. do not do not just show up at the border, stay where you are and apply illegally from there. starting today, if you don't apply to the legal process, you will not be eligible for this new parole program. ukrainian president of georgia midland case has russia is trying to use a proposed truce as cover to stop advances in the dumbass region and bring in more equipment. kiva dismissed a proposal by russia's president vladimir putin for 36 hour truce, which and ordered his defense minister to impose a temporary seas for starting on friday to correspond with the orthodox christmas holiday. the criminal is calling on ukraine's forces to lay down weapons too. but you create insist, there'll be no truce until all russian troops leave ukrainian territory. yes, republican kevin mccarthy has lost his bid to become house speaker for an 8th time . a group of conservative republicans continued to block him from the ro. a coffee
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is now under growing pressure from both republicans and democrats to find the vote he needs or step aside what he's that house is unable to govern until a speaker has chosen here. israel was released, it's longer serving palestinian prisoner after 40 years in jail carry muniz, who's also an israeli citizen, was convicted in 1983 of killing and israeli soldier in the golan heights. he was initially sentenced to life in prison, but the sentence was later commuted. security officials have forbidden his family from holding celebrations to mark as when he's those of drop stories time of pandemic continues. now, i'll be back with the news asked right after that told me that if he had the health of humanity is at stake. a global pandemic requires a global response. w h o is the guardian of global health delivering life saving tools, supplies, and training to help the world's most vulnerable people,
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the phoenix useful than an academic priority should ever ever come before the health of the people that you're working with is no 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. why don't you just want 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 induce a good immune response. so you got to do better with ha,
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ha. now managing sub resin, cousin sommerling is a sort of madison. hi guys. low by monday the to me companies go up there. no m m i z m wonderful pile. i was on for no savings. is a condo known being land got when i was so gallivant's. oh, tomatoes. alphena given i know. hi louis. i'm having is of a positive. yeah. was he had any bored? hey, good thing we did in a my, in the q i known as tucson with a couple we've a previously visit, i read and nicotine or i'd say about it. so total per from one analogy, not much, i was willing, is just the st angelo mckesson sub what day?
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it was the kitchen piano, a vaccine is the agent that woman need. it's the agency we don't have to worry about if i have you because you have something in your body to protect it. as an empowerment tool. with the thought in mind that covered an h i v only 2 of the many zonati viruses that have jumped into humans. we need to know why in recent decades,
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this is happening with increasing occurrence. presently we're being confronted by a new series of pathogens that are emerging out of the deep forest 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 origins of h. i. b. but trees han and her group in 2006 were able to identify 2 chimp populations in southeastern cameron that were hosting simian immune deficiency viruses that were the closest related to h. i. b, one, a group that followed 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
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o 8 gifford. take 20 years on either side of that. what was going on in 19 o 8, in this particular spot in southeastern cameron. it was a period of a colonization, and you had the french and germans attempting to subjugate local indigenous groups into a new global economy. the login of central africa is rein force 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
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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 infected there, monogamous. they both get sick. they both die. you don't notice it until you perturbed civilization. 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's god doing trucking. they stay away from
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home. just the normal practices of your society. lead to the spread of infectious disease. 3 st. lavatory lamps can be shifted upon cobit 19. miss thorns one emerged in 2002. it came out of bats and central china and a lot of work since been mapped out all the different types of corona viruses, cross central and southern china. increase exploitation, the landscape increased the spill over events into all sorts of other species that are suddenly finding themselves being sold at market.
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ah, planet. earth is better known now as planet farm was 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 in fact, driving the emergence of these new pathogen we began to look at what are called circuits of capital. how are 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,
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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 back to another animal to a human. and then now it's not sexual practice. we're 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 so a respiratory infection spreads. every time we have an epidemic that's just an
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affirmation of our sings. we all have the receptor for the virus and i house but the sheila, the viruses density, the fuel virus is close. interpersonal contact. people who live in high density so is disparity, so brought out magnified in all populations throughout the world. 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,
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you're not gonna get your arms around the disease. why? for many ross, particularly if you're black and poor, he 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 odds against you to stack up. ah ah, how do we manage an epidemic when we have no support for the poor?
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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 report a corona virus cases than any country in the world. world wide. it's clear the public healthcare systems as a loft fortress against pandemic, watts at burton. and in the united states, the pioneer privatization, covert showing have 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 the cove at 19 outbreak. show this in open ah clarity.
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when the trump administration took over, he ended the pandemic preparation. he divested out of public health. that's in part how we've arrived, that this apparent clash between science on the one hand in front, on the other. ah, when i catch up with toby found chin he remains diplomatic about the deep riffs. took form between him and the then president we were consider the best prepared country for a pin them. but as it turns out, when you get a whopper, light cove, it 19, you're never as content as you really want to be. so that was the tension that sort of merged into some political divisiveness in the country of 28000000 americans are without insurance,
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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 moon. ah, ah, and he told me i hastily h r v vaccine to get where it is, but was covering with, we're looking at the end of this year. well, it's been more than a decade rad. we started that vaccine were in h. i the in 1986 to 7 the amp study. if it works, if we do get protection, will be the 1st in
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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 covered vaccines were gaining emergency approval . early results of the am trial were released, providing some hope at last foot h r v vaccine. to now i'm going to show you the results of captain, okay. say this shows you that the that the infection rate was lower in the, in the treatment arms in the fusion arms. it shows us that the infusion did work.
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so they would say easy that them feel positive, a positive result. very happy is an amazing, amazing, well, this is a legacy to your parents. okay. so by volunteering and study them with 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? will the vaccine get to the people who need it? or like covered will patents be used to limit supplies, ensuring higher profits for
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a small group of powerful companies. there is growing concerned, as we end 2020, about why it is taking so long for the country to receive the cove at 19 vaccine. the entire world has promised solidarity 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 commitment, or pre dosages of something that was not checked on the market. 13 percent of the world's population who reside in rich countries had bought up more than half of the world's potential supply of vaccine. this current vaccine nation is a new, a new to back see 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, your any comes to other vaccines at their premium to use and to public immunization programs against life threatening diseases they can, can,
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to 20 years before those vaccines become available in low income countries compared to end name 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. and 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'd been curled into a little corner,
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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 that 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. i didn't hind sight to take such a risk to pack a whole nation's health and welfare on charity. it seems crazy to me, especially as we know that some parents are causing worldwide concern because of their ability to dodge antibodies. surely the safe thing to do would be to flood the world with vaccines to get the virus the restroom to mutate. viruses do not mutate unless they are allowed to replicate and spread. if you prevent the
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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, i'm professor larry curry. organize a shipment of 500000 vaccines into south africa. that would work against severe it dominant at the time. i'm beginning to overwhelm our hospitals. long, long, long, long, day, and long a long, 14 days. hopefully we'll be able to vaccinate half a 1000000 calculate as we then get the vaccine to them that before that they'd
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waive their game see event 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 the cesspool of variance of concern. and we don't have vaccines. and so think that this going to get worse and worse 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
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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 covered has it my view be nothing less than 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 so
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what her society learnt from this time offender mix 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 cove, it has revealed that our count approach to public health is simply not working. maybe this is our last chance to go back to an older path. we want traveled. health as a basic right. not letting the market determine who gets access to innovation. not treating the global self as a charity case and turning us into a petri dish of variance. not letting the crushed for profit the dust
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all further into catastrophe. is it really such a radical idea to foot people 1st? oh ah. ah. hello that it's been a very wet start to the earth. northern areas of australia thanks to the monsoon rains but also a former tropical cyclone ellie that's been sitting stagnant across areas like a kimberly bringing some very heavy rain that's caused flooding. now as we go into the weekend,
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it's finally starting to push its way further south. take its very intense rain with it. it'll work its way east as we go further into the weekends. no, behind this. lots of hot and dry conditions to be enjoyed called western parts of australia. the temperature in perth is set to dip down before it starts to pick up again next week. and there will be more in the way of sunshine for the likes of sydney. that's after a wet saturday. by the time we get to monday, you can see the sunshine coming in and the temperature picking back up. that was the hope across the tasman to new zealand. unsettled weather, plaguing both islands, very heavy rain affecting the north of the south island on friday with plenty of rain sweeping into the bay of plenty. it's a similar trend. as we go in to saturday. we move to southeast asia. we've got a deepening area of low pressure trucking, some very heavy rain at coastal areas of vietnam that will work its way further south. if we truck it further east is continuing to bring the heavy rains to central and southern areas of the philippines. that's the weather.
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