they lauded the world health organization -- the world health organization lauded china for reversing the virus' genome in mid-january while neglecting to meng that it took -- to mention that it took china at least 14 days to do this, even as the virus continued spreading across europe and reaching america. dr. tedros said in early february that there was no need for measures that, quote, unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade in trying to halt the spread of that coronavirus. now, early february was a few days after president trump stopped travel from china, except for american citizens coming home. but during that period of time, dr. tedros thought it was unnecessary to interfere with international travel. time and time again, the world health organization endorsed and also repeated chinese government talking points, and they did it all to the rest of the world's detriment. we now know that there was a continued flow of misinformation coming from the chinese government since the on-set of the pandemic with little to no pushback by the world health organization on

costly for the wild he says officials backed china saying the only way forward for the world health organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence and then ends the lesson demanding major changes to the organization trump writes if the world health organization does not commit to may just stand to improvements within the next 30 days i will make my temporary freeze of u.s. funding to the world health organization permanent all the u.s. president also accuses china of being partly responsible for that other chinese actions and i think they've done a. very sad job in the last period of time and again the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of china. china centric to put it nicer but their puppet of china made the u.s. tries to use china as an issue to shirk responsibility and bargain over its international obligations to the w.h.o. this is a miscalculation in the u.s. has picked the wrong target me when there is some truth in the u.s. leaders open later is full of hints perhaps and maybe tries to use specious methods

to the world health organization.previously, chinese leaders came under incredible scrutiny by the world health organization back in 2003. for the sars outbreak. china was not transparent with sars likeik they were transparet until too late in regards to this virus pandemic that we are fighting today. back then, the chinese government make sure that information regarding the outbreak of sars was not made public. at that point, the world health organizationhe did the what they're responsible for doing. they publicly reprimanded china back in 2003 on the sars outbreak. chinese leaders then quickly fell in line with the rest of the world. was the world health organization every country. the world health organization had been doing his job on this pandemic, and maybe china would have been quicker and admitting that it was human to human and how that is even in their own vcountry. however, we are seeing a very different approach now to the organizations handling china's information suppression campaign for the world health

the world health organization states, as its guiding principal, that all people should enjoy the highest standard of health regardless of race, religion, economics, or social condition or political belief. it serves primarily as a coordinating body to share information and best practices by connecting experts in different countries. the virus that emerged in wuhan, china, which causes the disease now known as covid-19, has had a devastating impact on the health of people wide, worldwide, as well as to the global economy. nations, including the united states have been scrambling to deal with the impact. without a doubt worldwide efforts to combat covid-19 would have been greatly benefitted from independent unbiased and informative data from the world's leader in health, the world health organization. unfortunately information coming from this organization since the beginning of the year has left much to be desired. often providing information that we know now to be inaccurate or at least incomple incomplete. the american people and citizens of every country, all of whom rely on direct and

president donald trump has threatened to withdraw the united states from the world health organization and permanently and u.s. funding in a letter to the un bodies director general mr trump a demands changes based on his criticisms within 30 days he accuses the organization of mishandling the global coronavirus response and being a puppet of china china describes mr trump's comments as a smear campaign and accuses him of shirking america's responsibilities to the w.h.o. final decision. even before trump had issued his insane. a letter to the world health organization it was clear he was about to attack. and i think they've done a. very sad job in the last period of time and again the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of china. china centric to put it nicer but they're a puppet of china those comments at a white house event were quickly followed by a trump tweet he links to a letter accusing the w.h.o. of making a series of missteps over its response to the pandemic in it he warns that if the world health organizati

for the wilds he also says officials backed china saying the only way forward for the world health organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence he then ends the lesser demanding major changes to the organization trump writes if the world health organization does not commit to major substantial improvements within the next 30 days i will make my temporary freeze of u.s. funding to the world health organization permanent while the us president also accuses china of being partly responsible for the w.h.s. actions and i think they've done a. very sad job in the list period of time and again the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of china. china centric to put it nicer but they're a puppet of china. i mean war the u.s. tries to use china as an issue to shirk responsibility and bargain over its international obligations to the w.h.o. this is a miscalculation and the u.s. has picked the wrong target and they were in there. the u.s. leaders open later is full of hints perhaps and maybe tries to use specious methods to

the world health organization. in its first assembly, dr. holm declared this organization was physically prepared to raise the health level of all people and forever restore the human afflictions of colorado, tuberculosis and syphilis. the prime objective of the world health organization is the fight against disease on a global scale. the representatives of nearly every nation have signed on, and this means an organization with the authority to act. epidemics, no matter what part of the world they may inspect are a potential danger to all over the -- other nations. the world organization will make full use of every existing means. a tremendous movement of world solidarity is born. inoculation already widely used will be extended. millions of people will be given prophylactic injections. a widespread system of medical control will be everywhere. in norma's quantities of serums, vaccines, and powerful -- enormous quantities of serums, vaccines and powerful drugs such as penicillin. a constant flow of up-to-date information in every nation now m

funding of the world health organization while. it's not totally neutral if you're seeing something coming from that average joe it's something that its member states wanted to be really something that a member state consented to be early so i think that if you really want to hold it accountable you basically need to go to each individual member state and engage with journals and they are engaged with criticism there. to see the full picture you sort of have to go beyond what what states are killing it. and finally if your feeds look anything like mine for weeks now you've been seeing americans begging their news networks to just stop with their live coverage of donald trump's daily coronavirus briefings they say the misinformation is just too dangerous the idea for instance of injecting bleach into your veins as a cure but even if those networks agreed and tried to kill their live coverage their shareholders probably wouldn't let them because the ratings are just too good which will come as a relief to randy a rainbow he's an onli

and because of that, pulled back from the world health organization which basically allows china and chinese communist party, to dominate that organization even more. >> dr. jha, what is your reading of the world health organization's role in this situation, and what would it mean for the united states to withhold funding and of course, there's so such thing as permanent. donald trump is only president until january 20th, and possibly beyond that, we don't know. but congress has a role here, too. so this is, at most, a temporary withholding of that funding. >> yeah. so lawrence, thanks for having me on. first of all, i think the idea of withholding funding from the most consequential global health agency in the middle of the most important pandemic in a century, strikes me as incredibly unwise. not just for the world, but also specifically for the united states. much of the world relies on the w.h.o.'s expertise and guidance to fight disease outbreaks like the coronavirus outbreak. the w.h.o. is running the largest clinical trial of medicines in the world, the solidarity trial. and t

has a problem with taiwan well if it gets to the issue with an organisation like the world health organization but any of these multilateral organizations it's a creature of its member states so it's up to the member states of the w.h.o. to make those reforms to the organisation that they want to see so in essence donald trump is losing that leverage that he might have to reform the world health organization or to make it better by withdrawing from the organisation he loses the ability to have an influence and if his complaint is that china has too much influence this just opens up a leadership vacuum within the world health organization that china could easily fell ok the germans are saying this causes unnecessary harm harm to whom. well it causes harm to be international cooperation collaboration that's necessary not just for dealing with the current code in 1000 pandemic but also to all the other sorts of programs that the world health organization organizes it also means that we have to try to scramble now to try to catch catch up with that funny i'd give the world health organization is s

the world he accuses officials of backing china writing the only way forward for the world health organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence from china he ends the letter demanding major changes of the organization saying if the world health organization does not commit to major substantiative improvements within the next 80 days i'll make my temporary freeze of the united states funding to the world health organization permanent and the us president also accuses china of being caught be responsible for the w h o's actions. and i think they've done a. very see the list period of time. and again the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of jonah. china centric to put it nicer but they're a puppet of jonah and china's reacted to the trump letter saying the u.s. is trying to shift the blame of its own incompetent response to coronavirus attorney who has more from beijing. china's foreign ministry has responded to trump's letter by painting the us as a rogue state that is not abiding by the rules of the internation

requested and needed reforms, we will be today terminating our relationship with the world health organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving, urgent, global public health needs. the world needs answers from china on the virus. we must have transparency. why is it that china shut off infected people from wuhan to all other parts of china? it went nowhere else. it didn't go to beijing. it went nowhere else, but they allowed them to freely travel throughout the world, including europe and the united states. the death and destruction caused by this is incalculable. we must have answers, not only for us, but for the rest of the world. this pandemic has underscored the crucial importance of building up america's economic independence, re-shoring our critical supply chains, and protecting america's scientific and technological advances. for years, the government of china has conducted illicit espionage to steal our industrial secrets, of which there are many. today, i will issue a proclamation to better secure our nation's vital university research and suspend the entry

in 1967, the world health organization launched a new campaign with a different approach. contain the disease at each outbreak. stop the chain of transmission. every case had to be tracked down. all who had been in contact had to be found and vaccinated. the search went on everywhere. in schools, public places, through person-to-person contacts, even financial rewards were offered for those reporting cases. the question was asked over and over again, have you seen anyone who looks like this? >> the very last case. with annie, a chain of transmission as old as mankind was broken. smallpox was no more. on the 8th of may, 1980, director general of the world health organization, signed a certificate of eradication. the world saved each year $1 million. as important as the elimination of smallpox was, hundreds of millions in the less developed countries were still trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty and disease. most people had no access to basic health care. average life expectancy hovered at 50. many mothers died in childbirth and many children, like these, died before reac

news that live from berlin donald trump a delivers an ultimatum to the world health organization the u.s. president calls the w.h.o. a puppet of china and threatens to permanently withdraw unless the u.n. agency makes changes within the next 30 days will an independent review help settle the dispute also coming up. a supercycle own heads towards india and bangladesh forcing millions to flee but winds and rain aren't the only threat to storms also jeapordizing of the coronavirus response. and the likes of lionel messi are back in team training as european football leagues and short resuming games following the buddhist league has returned we take a look at when and how. i'm claire richardson welcome to the show world health organization member states have backed an independent probe into the un agencies coronavirus response following president trump's criticism over its handling of the pandemic leaders join the w h o's annual assembly being held virtually for the 1st time trump threatens to withdraw the u.s. from the organization accusing it of being a puppet of china beijing for its

world he also accuse officials of backing china writing the only way forward for the world health organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence from china he ended the letter demanding major changes of the organization trump wrote if the world health organization does not commit to major substantiative improvements within the next 30 days made my temporary freeze of united states funding to the w.h.o. organization permanent and the u.s. president's not shying away from criticism of china he accuses of the accuses beijing of partly being responsible for the w.h.o. of the actions but i think they've done a. very see the list period of time. and again the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of jonah. china centric to put it nicer but they're a puppet of jonah and in the past china has reacted to the letter saying the u.s. is trying to shift the blame of its own incompetent response to coronavirus between e.u. is in beijing joins us now live that response coming from the chinese foreign ministry katrina. that's righ

woman the ministry of foreign affairs expresses deep regret that the world health organization secretariat has yielded to pressure from the chinese government and continues to disregard the right to health for the 23000000 people of taiwan. the people of taiwan are poor the to freeze behavior of the chinese government which claims to care for their health and welfare while actually seeking to deprive them of their rights in health. and other world news libya's internationally recognized government says it has retaken control of the air base the site has been used as warlord honey for half tires headquarters in western libya since 2014 earlier this month forces from tripoli launched an offensive to recapture the base soldiers loyal to have toppled out on monday after suffering major losses during heavy fighting in recent weeks let's bring in our correspondent in tripoli mahmoud abdel wad so mahmoud this latest move how might it change the battlefield in the balance of power. will fully apparently it will change the balance of power as you know that this is a strategic highly significant is

policy for the world health organization. the widely discredited world health organization. good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." administration will announce a major change in america's posture towardser w.h. we will have details for you, sorting through them right now and just a moment. butt. first, the country appears heto be splitting into two hemispheres even as we watch. places where i public officials are allowing the science to guide their decisions, states like that are cautiously beginning to relax theirir lockdown and finding no spike in illness as they do it. then there is the other half of the country, places you are glad you don't live right now. in those places, power drunk politiciansig crow about science but resolutely ignore its findings and they don't care what the data says bared their decisions are driven by ambition, political calculation, and the pure animal joy of controlling other people's amlives. places like that are tightening their lockdown's even now. may be no place in the country represents the authoritarian approach more starkly

world he also accuse officials of blocking china writing the only way forward for the world health organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence from china he ended the letter demanding major changes of the organization trump wrote if the world health organization does not commit to major substantial substantial improvements within the next 30 days i'll make my temporary freeze of the united states' funding to the world health organization permanent and the us president is not shying away from his criticism of china he's accused beijing of being partly responsible for the actions. but i think they've done a. very see the list period of time. and again the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year. and they're a puppet of jonah. china centric to put it nicer but they're a puppet of jonah are let's get the reaction from beijing and our correspondent katrina you joins us now live so what are they saying in china about the threat to the w.h.o. and also a trump sakis ations. well state media here in china are painting president xi jinping in op

that the i see the not really my kind of wisdom been the out the perils of as of the world health organization when i spoke to that if you use health minister this intuition i said what did you do it said quite simply we just followed the world health organization guidelines it's not very difficult just do that and you do it well and that's what they've done and that's why they have a team just at the moon this moment in time could only put us indeed iceland in new zealand and many other jurisdictions done that as well simply based following it good advice that was given not trying to reinvent the wheel which is what happened in the u.k. post march the 12th i guess by mcneil from the wonderful island the but thank you very much for joining us today so welcome thank you. there are many things about corona virus we do not yet fully understand however some things that we do know we know that this virus attacks the elderly and formals we know that people of color are vulnerable we know that is highly infectious we also know that those countries which followed the world health organization advice t

health secretary has also attacked china and the world health organization over their response to cope with 19 chinese president paying defended his country's response as open and transparent during an annual health conference run by the w.h.o. but the aging has been facing growing criticism as our diplomatic editor james bass says in this report. it's a time when countries have been concentrating on their national responses to the virus and with tensions between china and the u.s. growing the un secretary general sounded frustrated his video link from new york to geneva wasn't working well but delegates heard him condemn the lack of global cooperation result one of you does express your understanding varied he may have some talk of solidarity but very little unity in our response to cope with 19 countries have followed different sometimes contradictory strategies and we are all paying a high price for this many countries have ignored the recommendations of the world health organization as a result the virus has spread throughout the world and is now heading towards southern countries

so, noah, let me bring you in on the first question of the world health organization. the president making lots of charges here. but does the world health organization, in your view, have something to answer for when it comes to their conduct? >> yeah, i believe they do. the president's approach here is fraught. not to say that it's bad policy. but that, it's probably relatively superfis relatively superficial debate. so a lot of institutions get a say as to whether or not this institution gets the cash it deserves. and the president making no distinction between the political leadership and medical mission of this organization probably undermines his case because it martyrs an organization that really does do good work. but this organization was responsible for funneling and lending authority to flawed and falsified data that was coming out of china, resulting in every western government being caught on the back foot, on the heel, of this pandemic and resulting in the crisis that we currently experience. it misled the world about the nature of transmission, the ste ex

a warning from the world health organization as brazil recommends the use of malaria drugs to treat the coronavirus. late night burials and funeral homes overwhelmed maker regulars government is accused of downplaying the scale of its corona virus outbreak. and one of the most powerful storms in decades has slammed into eastern india and bangladesh forcing more than 3000000 people to seek shelter at least 10 people have been killed in the indian state of west bengal a 2nd and pan barrels through the area the state's leader says the disaster is worse than the coronavirus pandemic in bangladesh at least 3 people have died and hundreds of ring of muslim refugees have been moved to higher ground elizabeth for a number of ports in new delhi are. sounding the alarm india's national disaster response force warn people of the state of west bank all ahead of cycling on making landfall the storm brought heavy rain and strong winds are proving trees more than half a 1000000 people have been evacuated to emergency shelters in west bengal and another 150000 to the state of disarray bond with the iss

world health organization is member states of agree to an inquiry into the international response to the corona virus pandemic or as your correspondent peter all of us has more. world health organization members of passed without objection a resolution put forward by the european union on behalf of 100 nations calling for a full independent investigation into the global response to the coronavirus pandemic what this resolution says is that there will be a full impartial independent and comprehensive investigation into the world health organization and in particular into the w h o's timelines the has been criticism of the world health organization that they didn't alert people or didn't alert nations soon enough to the dangers that we now know were presented by covert 19 chief among those criticizing the world health organization as being the united states during this summit which is taking place virtually for the 1st time jute a covert 19 the us secretary of health said the coronavirus was allowed to spiral out of control because of w.h.o. inaction there was a failure by this organiz

. >> the world health organization sprang out in action. they since celebrated on world health's day. in june 1948, the first world health assembly opened in geneva with 53 countries represented. >>> the suffering of human beings in countries will be alleviated and many thousands of lives will be saved. >> quarantine regulations to curve the spread of communical diseases. >> malaria, a widespread disease facing our organization. in the early 1950s, spectacular successes were achievered through a systematic spraying of dd. the world health organization launched a global campaign to eradicate malaria. the dream was not to be. by the late '60s, it was clear eradication was not applicabapp. controlling it was more of the approach. smallpox, millions were affected. in 1958, countries started vaccination campaigns to wipe out the disease worldwide. to vaccinate every man and women and child on earth proved an overwhelming task. in 1967, the world health organization launched a new campaign with a different approach containing the decide at each ou

an independent investigation is ordered into the world health organization is handling of the corona virus pandemic. that i'm a clock designs are alive the halls are coming up libya's internationally recognized government make small gains retakes another town held by the warlords and before have to. strain a relationship to be as syrian government seizes the assets of president bashar assad's cousin and billionaire businessman. activists in argentina call on the government for help after more than a 1000 coronavirus cases importance there it's. so the united states is facing a growing backlash favorites threat to public hold funding to the w.h.o. that's after president on the trump said the organizations missteps have come out on extreme cost and i think they've done a. very sad job in the last period of time and again the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of china they are china centric to put it nicely but they're a puppet of china. well russia has become the latest global power to condemn trump's threats it's a

so that's why some of us have called for an investigation of the world health organization. we have asked the united nations to convene a special panel, some of us, to be able to look into this issue so it's not just america, the rest of the world ought to be involved in this as well. all the members of the w.h.o. ought to be concerned, and i believe they are. about the deference that they showed to china at a time when we needed them to be on the spot helping. so we now find ourselves forced to rely on the source of the virus, china, for a lot of our p.p.e. personal protective equipment. think of the masks and the gloves and the gowns that our frontline health care workers need and others who are now interfacing with customers and working together as co-workers. we have to rely on china for this. so in order to safely treat the covid-19 patients that are sick because of this virus that originated in china, we have now got to rely on china for this safety equipment. that's unfortunate, and that needs to change. we need to produce more of this here from more reliable sources.

the world health organization is warning people about what they call disease x which is the next one and their warning about it because we all have to be prepared and investing in global public health right now. if we spend billions of dollars bolstering global public health systems in countries around the world it's going to pay off in the trillions of dollars here in the united states alone if we are able to spot and stop the next disease x before it breaks out like this one has. >> the world health organization today held a world health assembly addressing the assembly . they did this virtually and here he is through a translator talking about the world economy. >> morning. i want to start today by recognizing the horrific toll that this virus has taken on so manypeople in the commonwealth . i want to talk about who's behind all the numbers that we discussed in thisroom every day .

the world health organization knew there was a problem. so that committee -- so that china could really corner the market on medical supplies and china could use this as a bioweapon to send around the world before anybody admitted that there was a problem. so, you bet, i think it's -- and the ramifications of this, we are going to feel the debt, the world is going to feel the crisis for decades. it's going to take us decades to pay this money back for our stagnant economy. and what does china plan to do? hike the u.s. did at the end of world war ii where the u.s. won world war ii and emerged as the leader of the world and rewrote the international rules of order to help others, the chinese plan to emerge from this in three or four years as the china that will be the dominant country in the world. and they have every intention of rewriting the rules of order of the world to their purposes. and they are not going to have a marshall plan, they are not going to be generous to those who have suffered. they will be just the opposite. so this is

has accused the world health organization of allowing the coronavirus pandemic to spin out of control health secretary alex as are told the u.n. agency assembly that the w.h.o. its failure to obtain information the world needed has cost many lives. we switched to latin america which is emerging as a global coronavirus hotspot crumbling health systems struggling economies and political divisions are making matters worse in some communities mexico has begun a gradual easing of its lockdown despite its number of deaths and infections continue to rise steadily the restrictions will be relaxed in phases now the mayor of brazil's largest cities are powerless says its hospitals are 90 percent full and could run out of space in 2 weeks brazil has recorded over 16000 deaths more than any other in latin america combined but president. continues to rally support to end the lock down and reopen the economy well in chile there have been violent protests in one of sunday argo's poorest neighborhoods hundreds of protesters broke quarantine orders to demand food and medical aid well our latin america

as the world health organizations decision making body meets to work on the next global efforts to tackle the pandemic now threatens to permanently x. its us funding. belgian health care workers. in protest over the government's handling of the pandemic there but the country eases more measures we speak to one of those medics. at this location where the prime minister was. sure we disagree with the way the. medical sector. slowing there are still problems. what is. with this fighting talk from a u.f.c. world champion urging caution for his fellow citizens especially with the end of ramadan coming up this week. my father is in the hospital his condition is very severe i've personally had over 20 close relatives hospitalized many of them are no longer with us please. don't accept yes. good afternoon from russia life martin to nationals will do center here in moscow is kevin all we need for the next 30 minutes with this latest round up great to have a company around the world 1st getting children back to see. cool to see mixed results in europe e.u. education ministers held a video conferenc

world leaders so that the world health organization need to better funding and more support in dealing with the pandemic and that the organization independent organization that oversees the world health organization they have said that the that they showed good leadership but the should be reviewed with the response that pandemic should be reviewed but not in the heat of the moment because it could hinder their work but they have said they have warned about the increasing politicize ation of the response to the pandemic so would this review this independent investigation also look into the origins of the virus because we know that an increasing number of countries want that looked into. no that's a separate resolution this would specifically look into the handling of how the world health organization dealt with the pandemic how they shared information how they warned other countries now the what will look into the origins of the virus is this resolution that's been supported with the right $120.00 countries not china was initially opposed to this now not opposed to the nie the supporti

well the bottom line is the world health organization seeks to discharge its mandate under the arrangements set in place back in one in 48 in the way and it does that is through the international health regulations how there is and that has applied to the current crisis concerning covert 19 frankly is still subject to open question inquiry and investigation i think for the president out of strays to simply issue a blanket smear that the w.h.o. is a puppet of one country or another frankly doesn't do justice to what we need to establish and i think the bottom line is president trump seems to be very quick to criticize any other institution in the world including that of robin apply that critique to the performance of his own administration in the united states itself which at a national government level i think most of us would agree is simply being chaotic so what you're saying is that donald trump is a play politics with an eye on the upcoming election. look number one is the world health organization does have questions to answer that. china has questions to answer the origin of the virus

did the world health organization do all the right things members decided investigation is needed into its coronavirus response. to the home run when you want your desire in life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes a warning that libya's war will get worse the u.n. says a flood of weapons and foreign involvement is having devastating attacks also accused of conspiring to murder has a strange wifeless tutus prime minister finally gives up his job also. police for help in argentina after more than a 1000 kroner virus cases the reported in a one as i read. bottom to the program nearly a full point $9000000.00 people infected in a matter of months now an investigation is to be held into how the world has responded to corona virus the world health organization's 194 member states have voted unanimously for an independent and impartial inquiry including an examination of the w h o's roll calls for an investigation led by australia and the european union. and ways. that leader job remains fully committed to trying to spot and see accountability and continuous improve

world health assembly hosted by the world health organization. he announced to china would provide $2 billion over two years to help countries around the world deal with the coronavirus and provide support for vaccines. president of the world health assembly, director general of the world health organization, dear delegates. sayegin with, i wish to significant importance for this world health assembly to be held at such a critical moment as the human race battles the novel coronavirus. while we are facing the most serious global public health emergency since the end of the thend world war, catching world by surprise, covid-19 has hit over 210 countries and regions. than 7 billion -- 7e around the world, million people around the world and claimed over 300,000 precious lives. i mourn for every life lost, and express condolence to the bereaved families. the history of human civilization is one of fighting diseases, and triumphing over disasters. the virus does not respect borders, nor is race or nationality relevant in the face of the disease. confr