ian lipkin in new york, welcome to hardtalk. good to be with you. me start with something you said just a few weeks ago. you said, "it would not surprise me if a substantial proportion of the entire world population becomes infected with covid—19." do you still feel that way today? i do. it will take some time, but this virus is spreading across the world at enormous speed, and the only thing really between us and bona fide infection of the entire world really is a vaccine, and that's several months away. the knowledge base upon which we develop our efforts to combat covid—19, is it still quite narrow or has it expanded massively over the past three months? there's been a dramatic amount of collaboration worldwide, the speed at which you've seen publications and press releases on the development of drugs, diagnostics, insights into the way in which this virus causes the disease is absolutely unprecedented. and yet the implication of what you first said to me is that none of that expanded knowledge and more effective response is going to make much di

lipkin aye. tumlin aye. gee aye. sesay aye. the consent calendar is approved. we can go ahead and move into your next item. which is item 10 -- my apologies, i have a text going on. assuming -- i'm getting texts, messages and trying to read the agenda. let me get back to the agenda. you can hear me, though, right? all right. item 10, direct temperature is is approving the fiscal year, 2020-2021 operating budget in the amount of 22,425,369, fiscal year 20-21 capital budget for phase 1, phase 2 and tenlt improvement in the amount of 90,626,061 and debt service budget in the amount of 21,123,458. let me get you the ball here in one moment. i just unmuted you. we can see your screen. it's that interesting display that we all -- >> there we go. yeah. toggle. >> there you go. >> okay. >> so thank you, good morning. i'd like to present you to the final operating debt and capital budgets for f.y.20-21. before i get into those, i'll go through the time lines. these previously presented versions of the budgets in january, which was the preliminary operating budget, and t

lipkin about the report before the break out of china and chinese researchers saying they discoverede flu they say is the potential to become a pandemic and 10% of workers on pig fares tested positive for the virus. one expert says it could be catastroph catastrophic. i know you know about this and other possible candidates people are aware of. what do you think about this one? >> well, their infectious disease is emerging and remerging all the time. the fact we're hearing about this new in advance of any sort disease is evidence that things have changed in china. there is a recognition that they need to share these kind of information. so i think earlier there was a suggest that people might be withholding data. if that were the case, we wouldn't have heard about this virus. we don't know it's going to become a pandemic. we know it's infected some human beings but that doesn't mean it's going to extend and cause larger amounts of disease. >> so the world health organization is now sending a team to china next week to look into the origins of the coronavirus and you've been talking t