it was written by the atlantic's ed yong. ed joins us here today. you have another article out this morning called, our pandemic summer. so, i'm judging from the name of the new article that we are not going to get over this any time in the near future. what are you reporting? mr. yong: yeah, that's right. i think, at the moment, everyone's attention, quite rightly, is on the current wave of the pandemic, which one would hope would peak within the coming weeks or months. but it is clear too from the experts i spoke to, that this is going to be a long-running problem that continues for the rest of the year and possibly even longer as we await a vaccine that is going to be the real endgame that changes how we cope with the pandemic. until then, we should expect multiple waves of the virus as it recedes and then resurges again. and we will need to steel ourselves medically and psychologically for what is going to be a protracted confrontation with this new virus. ms. meserve: the goal has been to lift the stay-at-home orders by april 30. feasible or no

we heard ed yong's thoughts.ery quickly, yours. >> the cd scrnch the leading public health agency. when i worked for president obama we were proud we helped launch an african cdc. all over the world countries model what they are doing compared to our cdc. to take this great resource and put it on the sideline is a real shame. i hope president trump will change his approach to that. >> thanks so much for joining us here today. >> thanks. >> and now led like to turn to a message from the president and c.e.o. of pharma, who is our underwriter for today's event. steve? >> thanks so much. pharma is pleased to be sponsoring today's atlantic event featuring speakers at the front line of fight covid-19. i must say one of the bright spots has been to see entire ecosystem rally on so many fronts whether it is the f.d.a. expediting approval with diagnostic test or hospitals and frontline healthcare workers treating those infected by the disease and policy makers who are acting to address the economic fallout caused by the v

check out ed yong's new article, our pandemic summer. thank you. we'll let you get back to report ing on this story. ed: thank you. >> please ask your questions using the q&a function you see on your screens. try and keep your questions short and concise and please keep them on topic and let us know where you're watching from. we'll try to incorporate as many as we possibly can. now let me bring in ron. ron is the executive vice president at revolution and the white house ebola response coordinator in 2014 and ron, it 2015. is great to have you with us here today. ron: thanks for having me. jeanne: you are an advisor to the biden campaign. i would like to talk about politics just a little bit. obviously, campaigning is a no go. -- physical campaigning is a no go. you can't go out there and kiss the babies and shake hands. is that going to radically transform the nature of this presidential race? ron: obviously it changes it for all americans having to campaign now. they have to campaign distantly. i think it is changing nature of the campaigns but i

"our pandemic summer" — by ed yong in the atlantic. it until a vaccine can be produced. with luck, that will take 18 to 2a months, he says. the point being that when people talk about exit strategies — that just means exiting the strictest of lockdowns — what many of us are experiencing now. as for a strategy for getting us back to life as normal — governments and scientists will have plans and ideas but even they will admit these can be no more than educated guesses at this stage. and lewis, there's also lots of useful information on the political debates around exit strategies, on the bbc news website too. that's right, playing whack a mole with the epidemic is an image, isn't it? will be back with you soon. stay with us on 0ustide source. still to come: courtship from the couch. dating apps say they've seen an increase in the use of their platforms during lockdown. south korea's ruling democratic party appears to be on course to secure a historic majority in the country's parliamentary elections. extraordinary measures were taken at

this is ed yong, site letter for the atlantic, author of a new book called "i contain multitudes." it's about the micro biomes, the microbes of our panel title. and carl zimmer a a science wrr for the "new york times" and author of many books including most recently "a planet of viruses." i'm sonia shah, and author of a book called "pandemic" which is about how microbes cause epidemics in the past and future in all these books will be for sale by barnes & noble and will be signed aftery this session at signing table h. of you guys can, joint us for more discussion there, too. first before we start i'd like to ask if anyone here actually is aua microbiologist? we have four. we can make anything up. [laughing] you guys correct us if you see nothing a wrong. i think it's a really interesting time to talk about microbiology because of there's been a paradigm shift in recent years. if you think back since the late 19th century at least, we have thought about microbes mostly as the malevolent intruders who we sort of have to target with surgical precision with military might. i kind of c

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