tv Time of Pandemics Al Jazeera January 6, 2023 3:00pm-4:01pm AST
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largest polluters of the world are in india, jump into the street, they made their money on coal. they made their money on the field, convincing those folks. no, we need to go. green is very, very difficult, giving all of voice and toast to loop because we wanted to escape war and violence . when you humanize this narrative, you allow people to really understand the reality in breakdown misconceptions. the stream on al jazeera african narrative from african perspectives, home blooming, gale, livid, transmit total. well, i got, i've been in a new series of short documentary st by african filmmakers from miami. and gabon is in the next week in samples of the great medina heritage. and making her future africa direct on al jazeera. ah,
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i'm rob madison, and oh, how about the top stories on al jazeera, unilateral sees foreigners by president vladimir putin has come into effect in ukraine, according to russian state television. but ukraine's leaders dismissed the 36 hour pause and fighting. but i like his ations of both sides of continued strikes and shall him give to put those on there. or what did you notice those who continued the terror against our country and sent all these people of yours to be slaughtered, rejecting our proposals to stop brushing, aggression? definitely do not value life. and moreover, do not strive for peace. they now want to use christmas as a cover all be a briefly to stop the advances of our boys in don bass and bring equipment ammunitions and mobilized troops closer to our positions. what will that give them? only yet another increase in their total losses. chastisement reports from cave.
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there's a huge skepticism here, as we heard from the ukranian president as to the real motivation for this announcement. for this unilateral cease fire by the russian president zelinski, calling it a cover up potentially giving russian forces an opportunity to move more equipment closer to the front lines, more personnel. that was, that was supplemented by a tweets by the ukranian foreign minister dmitri kill labor. last night he said that anything like this from president putin offering some sort of sci fi should not be taken seriously. chinese authorities urged people to limit the number of trips and gatherings ahead of the lunar new year, fos. they've stopped short of binding travel altogether. china's facing scrutiny over its response to the surgeon, covert 1900 infections because any new has more from beijing were continuing to see these incredibly lower numbers provided by the chinese government and the w who has
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essentially rubbish this information and they've urged fading to provide more accurate data regarding hospitalization and debt. we do know that some health experts around the world have put estimates at about 9000 deaths occurring here every day. now out he went to investigate. we went to a crematorium in beijing, eastern charl young district. and we saw als and crowds of families in the local that we spoke to said they've never seen the crematorium. this visit kevin mccarthy's been to become us. house speaker is now the longest voting process of 164 years. after 3 days and 11 runs, the republican has failed to get enough support from his own party violence and bloodshed, a broken heart on the streets, sequoia han and mexico following the arrest of a powerful cartel leader of video guzman. lopez is the son of a jailed drug lord known as our chapel. the m $23.00 rebel group is occupying new areas and democratic republic of congo,
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despite saying to withdraw for some from some areas. they are group announced last month, they would pull out from the town. so roman gobble. i'm cuba that had occupied last october. catherine saw it has more from my robi. what is happening now? is that m 23 will be handing over that base? a regional forces from east africa who have been in this area basically trying to help the government deal with the security situation. now i'm to do to re say that what they're trying to do and they have been withdrawing from some areas. so what they are trying to do is to have these good will a, we've got the government because they want to sit with maybe want to negotiate. we have been speaking to government officials are saying that this will not be possible because they say this and i'm to d. 3 has already been declared
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a terrorist organization. tens of thousands of homes are with our power in the usa, california after a pacific storm, broad, severe flooding, flash floods, and rock slides disrupting travel. a young child is among 2 people were killed when a tree fell on a mobile home. south korean tech giant, samsung electronics, it says profit sank to an 8 year low between october and december. economists say, rising inflation and interest rates are to blame. those are the headlines. the news continues here on al jazeera in about 25 minutes after time of pandemic. goodbye ah presently were 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 far animal bed are reservoirs 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 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 to the 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 upon which we depend in order to do that. human societies have long faced the threats with 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 eat. so if our expense at the expense of these global markets, it's just an inevitable. the worry is that there's no handle this thing is going to be
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a force all of its own. southern africa i saw recently live series, the worst impacts of 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 cov, 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 learned this the hard way an ugly after a lot of unnecessary suffering. there 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 i v c. this kind of messaging, the implication was, if you become infected, you only have yourself to blame bmw the people who are most affected by h r. v was somehow narrowed down to the poor h's. according to the u. s. center for disease control in the 1980s. these were homosexuals, patient's parent, alex, and whom officially or we were told the virus originated and asked 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. as we were gonna fix the
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subject matter if, so arb seen 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 regard. normally 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 the pause aids questioning does a virus cause and syndrome?
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how does a virus cause a syndrome? it gone? 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 near impossible, impractical and not cost effective. dod, i'm flu period on deep the nihilism and lame. he was so adamant about ha toxic and to act allows 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 children have been infected with h. i v 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 ronnie. hi, because richard nations had 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 injuries, somebody who was raped could access any of these, 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
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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 powell of the people through the treatment action campaign to make a our retreat. not as 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 a tri county space. it
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is devastating families and community or wyoming and getting 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 the 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 for 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. no person should have to hear those
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words. the programs be hated by don't to and to me found she it benefited from the decision one of the major companies to drop that 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 law 20. and when is with a linen? 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
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a shabby 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 h i b was my mother, my father, my uncle's everyone. so we suffered a lot when i lost my parents, cause of the ha, how do you? oh, has helped me. my husband 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 and have chain. so h o v is i don't know how to explain. i'm very scared of
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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 say the pay 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 heads up this vast organization that is publicly funded for the us government. vaccines had been left to the development by pharmaceutical. they in essence, would decide what vaccines they were gonna invest in. and the reality is,
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is that that often is the balance between their perceived market and societal need be a good cup. in h i t, it was a huge the sale the need. there is an enormous amount of infection in the under develop world. and the non pharmaceutical market work. 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 vaccine science. it is taking decades to develop something the targets h o. v's unique ability to evade a traditional vaccine. it feels like we're on the cost of something really big here. the reason we call it number one of our c o, 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 be tremendously potent antibodies against a virus, he was happy to volunteer and he knew that we isolated his data by the time
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and when that was done, several apps found and we're actually able to make in the lab protein the animal protein that was able to kill block each very pump. recommend in the am 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. we're 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 down 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 for travelers. we've been moving increasingly in the direction of research becoming a private affair. determined by competition and exclusivity.
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the big take out from 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 the hood of climate vaccine opportunities in terms of being 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 cases with say, i guess
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then does it get better? hey, just make it. yeah. i so we have to be committed to the in game. yeah. and in game is an affordable intervention for the poor. and it feels like a festival. when we started with h ivy, it was very difficult to isolate an antibody from person in 20192020. we can do that in a matter of weeks and we can do it 10 times a 100 times faster and more efficiently. we have isolated antibodies from cov, 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 cobit 19 vaccine trial, developed some anti bodies 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 cove with vaccines in return for funding the manufacture vaccines. participating drug companies like madonna were given full intellectual property rights over the finished product. governments have essentially stepped into the risk investment. and in an ideal world, public money should be greater public access. tens
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of thousands of volunteers signed up to participate in clinical trials. i to joined one of the trials 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 old baby fort fixed in advance from 3 of the leading groups that are developing bricks. yes. so that means our opportunity to gain access to the vaccines are very limited as 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 co max 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 found she for 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 centered around h r v. as in, excuse that an academic priority should ever ever come before the help of the
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people that you're working with is a question about that. african narrative from african perspectives on blooming gale assembly will transmit a while ago that there was in a new series of short documentary by african filmmakers from miami and gabon. she'd been african samples of creek. don't wait. medina, heritage and making her future africa direct on al jazeera ah, in with
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there was a time to be direct. there is a growing realization that rights can be taken away in this country to cut through the rhetoric. how can we resist this narrative and how they injuries and demand the truth? don't me, mark them on hill for up front. what out there? the activists radical and the founder of african cinema. out just in the world, tell us the story of the more italian direct a film making a style for that he made a breakthrough in sooner to find a way to me is a mode was a fighter. his weapons were his mind and his intelligence med honda. rebel african, tell me on how she's here. oh,
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i'm at madison and don't have the top stories. i'm al jazeera, unilateral cease fire, announced by president vladimir putin has come into effect in ukraine, according to russian state television. but ukraine's leaders dismissed the 36 hour pause and fighting that our accusations on both sides of continued strikes and shelling. give to put those on there, or what of june? ashley, those who continued the terror against our country and sent all these people of yours to be slaughtered, rejecting our proposals to stop brushing, aggression, definitely do not value life, and moreover, do not strive for peace. they now want to use christmas as a cover all be briefly to stop the advances of our boys in don bass and bring equipment ammunitions and mobilized troops closer to our positions. what will that give them? only yet another increase in their total losses. chinese authorities urged people to limit the number of trips and gatherings ahead of the lunar new year,
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but they've stopped short of banding travel altogether. china's facing scrutiny over its response to the surgeon covered 19 infections. kellen mccarthy's bid to become us house speakers know the longest voting process in a 164 years. after 3 days and 11 rounds, the republican has failed to get enough support from his own party. violence and bloodshed are broken out on the streets of cliff han and mexico following the arrest of a powerful cartel leader of video guzman. lopez is the son of the jailed drug lord known as l chapel. the entity rebel group is occupying new areas in democratic republic of congo, despite saying it would withdraw from some areas. the army group announced last month it would pull out from the towns of roman gobble and cuba that had occupied last october. tens of thousands of homes are without power in the u. s. state of california. after a pacific storm brought severe flooding. a young child among 2 people who were
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killed when a tree fell in a mobile home. hawaii's kilo volcanoes erupting for the 2nd time in less than a month. little kin is one of the world's most active than the us. geological watch . dog is rated a low level to some to read. it won't gas and small could cause people breathing difficulties and damage crops. south korean tech jane samsung electronics, it says profits sank to an e to your low between of tobin and december. economists, c, rising inflation and interest rates are to blame. those are the headlines. news continues in our disease after time of pandemic ex. goodbye new horizon for visually impaired the rockies. they finally have their own football team. training was launched in october in this city of karbala. the specially designed to both was donated by a japanese charity. it creates a cracking sound to allow players to locate it. these players hope to join football
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clubs and represent their country in competition. but other iraqi provinces don't have that it own teams because there are only 5 believe, especially these eyeballs ah, 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 cove at 19 human societies have long faced the threats of disease. and despite so many breakthroughs and motor 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. the question about that, sitting at the center of infectious disease control is tony found she for decades,
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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 centered around h r v. why don't you just want to do that? why don't you to that wants to that you have to play are both successful vaccines or against diseases in which ultimately the immune system clears the virus . so when you do a vaccine, you designed it exactly to act like a natural infection. don't want to do that with h id because you know that natural infection doesn't reduce a good immune response. so you got to do better with a job. no
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matching sample as in cousin sommerling his a center madison. hi guys. slow by monday, the to live companies go appear. no m m, i c. m. wonderful. pio. as on for new 72nd on being language. when i was so relevant, oh, tele medicine and i given i know high level sometimes is of a positive i was telling me a good thing didn't a my in the q i known as to suck with money a couple we've a previously, if visit i would allocate, or i'd say about it, so total per from one analogy, not much. i was when it's just the st. angelo mckesson sub what day it was the kitchen piano, a vaccine is the agent that woman need. it's the
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agency we don't have to worry about applying a chevy because you have something in your body that protects you. as an empowerment tool. 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
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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 origins of h. i. v. patrice 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 of that follow 2 years layer led by michael or a b. we're able to put a date on that spill over event event happened in 19 o 8, give or take 20 years on either side of that. what was going on in 19 o 8,
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in this particular spot in south eastern 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 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 people. max to hunt down, push meet. ah, they will probably individual jumps of virus from chimps to humans
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because they use it as bush me. a man gets infected. he's out hunting, which him? he gives it to his wife. she gets infected, they're 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 home, just the normal practices of your society, lead to the spread of infectious disease whose
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st plan tore lamps can be shifted upon kobe 19. 31 emerged in 2002. it came out of bat and central china. and a lot of work since then mapped out all the different types of corona viruses, cross central and southern china. increased exploitation to landscape increased that spill over events into all sorts of other species that are suddenly finding themselves being sold at market. ah, planted earth is better known now as planet farm
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with 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 greenwashing, the broader global reticle economy. that was, in fact, driving the emergence of these new pathogens we began to look at what or call circuits of capital, how our capital mood. so once i 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 hot spots 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,
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from wildlife, into a lifestyle and humans with . and then one day, a virus jumps from a bat 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. it is not much you can do about that, but as you guys would do in an effort to locking yourselves into your house, which you can't do that forever. and that 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 her nose.
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but sheila, viruses density, the fuel virus is close. interpersonal contact people who live in high density. so these disparities brought out well magnified in all populations throughout the world. you got to understand the social determinants of health. you know, in the united states with cove 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 if you don't understand it, you're not gonna get your arms around the disease. well, for many ross, particularly if you're black and poor,
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he doesn't matter if you're in the global shops or living in a wealthy nation, you're hanging on to life by a fright. then least, pandemic come along. covered a chart v and the odds against you to stack up with mm yeah. how do we manage an epidemic when we have no support for the pura 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,
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we're going to see people dying from other diseases like a chevy 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 health care systems as a last fortress against pandemic, watts if brokers and in the united states, the pioneer privatization cove, it is showing how deadly days to come, modify the social right to house the u. s. was now prepared for this pandemic. it had in effect, abandoned 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
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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 full 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 19th, you're 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
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are in essence disconnected out our of our capacity to intervene in their health. mm. mm. mm. mm. oh, oh, can you tell me i need a decade. h r v vaccine to get where it is. but was covered with, we're looking at the end of this year. well, it's been more than a decade rad. we started at vaccine. we're in h, i the in 1986 to 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 pass a transmittal in. definitely worth the investment.
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particularly among women in south africa who are 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 i'm trav released, providing some hope at last foot h r v vaccine. and i'm going to show you the results, the captain. okay. say this shows you that the that the infection rate was lower in the, in the treatment arms in the infusion arms. it shows us that the infusion did work . so they would say is that then g, a positive, a positive result?
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very happy, isn't it amazing, amazing. well, this is the legacy to your parents. okay. so by volunteering and study them with the good results coming out of the i'm trial i vaccine the prevents h r g is finally incite. 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
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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 yet on the market. 13 percent on the walls population who reside in rich countries had bought up more than half of the walls. potential supply of vaccine vaccine nation is a new, a new to lexi 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. generally, when it comes to other vaccines that they're going to use into public immunization programs against life threatening diseases, they can, 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
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h. i v pandemic. 8 years after the therapeutics were available in the west, we had 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, 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
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control of their production assets. the same thing they paid on 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 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 next 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
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the idea of this being a gigantic clinical trial. dr. glenda gray, i'm professor larry curry. organize a shipment of $500000.00 vaccines into south africa that would work against the varied dominant at the time. i'm beginning to overwhelm our hospitals. long, long, long, long, day, and long a long, 14 days. for the rebels like snakes, half a 1000000, healthy workers. we then get the vaccine to them that before the 3rd wave, their game to be burnt. arthur, it's going to be misery. we have millions of immunosuppressed people in our country. and these millions are
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potential ways of was for variance of concern. africa becomes the cesspool of variance of concern, and we don't have vaccines. and so things at this going to get worse and worse. throughout africa. we have seen that wherever h i v became endemic. so do tuberculosis. the waves are infectious. diseases are influencing each other. at the same time, the higher the burden of disease, the more public health systems get on to mind. then because we can't care for our sick, we are threatened by dead li 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
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entire whoa. the patents prevented people getting h i v medicine. what 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 a 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 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,
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but what about the more difficult issue of how prepared we are for what to come 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 self as a charity case and turning us into a petri dish of variance. not letting the crest for profit they'd us all further into catastrophe. is it really such a radical idea to put people 1st
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ah ah, i hello there will start in south america from the satellite image. you can see a rush of stones feathering out from coastal areas of brazil bringing so very heavy rain across much of the amazon basin towards the andes. now bolivia has dried up but it's peru and equity was turned to see some of those more fear storms and they will be rolling into columbia, knocking the temperature down in bogota by saturday. we could see some flooding in
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santa country green estate for the siding here, possible landslides as well. and rio de janeiro is going to get a drenching through the we can for the south of this a much why a picture for northern areas of argentina as well as paraguayan your why we will see temperatures picking up over the next few days. there was you moved to central america, pretty quiet story for much of mexico. we are, we will see some showers rushing on most southern areas picking up for believes, but it's really the greater entities that we'll see those bus of heavy rain as we go saturday into sunday as we move to north america. this is where the weather story certainly is. we've got that bonsai clone that's hit california and more rain to come. we got another one. moving in that storm system on friday brings a very heavy rain, as well as some snow further east through the weekend that weather update. ah,
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the american people, if spoken, but what exactly did they say is the world looking for a whole new order with less america in it? is the woke agenda on the decline in america. how much his social media company to know about you, and how easy is it to manipulate the quizzical look us politics the bottom line? are they protect us or profiteers of free speech of lago? documenting facts on the ground or a purveyor of the state line unchecked, the media can distort narratives and reshape realities. the listening post keeps watch on al jazeera ah, now jazeera, with every oh.
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