billions of dollars of his own money he has spent and don't forget the foundation the bill and melinda gates foundation has been instrumental over the last decade in fighting deceases like malaria and hiv aids and so because you know system now the foundation has pledged $250000000.00 to fight the coronavirus pandemic bill gates also recently said that if and when such a vaccine is available it's a currency for him that a smell of it made available to all people including in countries where they can't afford it i thank you for that i'd be doubly reporter or they also. tourism is one of the industry's worst hit by this pandemic it's estimated that global travel will fall by up to 30 percent this year or europe accounts for half of the world tourist arrivals and is facing staggering losses e.u. ministers have held a virtual summit to consider how to help an industry in crisis. from paris. to brussels. european capitals that should be filled with people lie almost empty and silent. we've borders closed and members of the public forced to stay home europe's tourism industry is in dire straits. the european

of the bill and melinda gates foundation.which has a very close relationship to pharmaceutical industry. and has goals that are almost identically aligned with the story how are the pharmaceutical industries then given what you just said at the thought of goal or would they be opposed to things that the w.h.o. would think would be good for me as a citizen or any other citizen of the world. historically the pharmaceutical industry has used the w.h.o. the w.h.o. has tremendous power in developing countries and particularly there's drugs. the pharmaceutical industry wants on africa drugs that are on or stale or that are poison and don't work. they can usually persuade p.w.a. shallow to to force on african populations the way joe tests on african populations and it compels african populations to take off against the well away they do this is that the w.h.o. controls the. the funding for the health organizations and all us all nations and africa for example the program pumps millions and billions of dollars into those nations ever

the second largest funder at over $200 million is the bill and melinda gates foundation. u.k., germany -- china's contribution under $100 million annually. brett schaefer, what do you think the proper role of the world health organization during a pandemic, this pandemic in particular, should be? guest: well, the world health organization is supposed to be our early warning system for these sorts of things. it's supposed to track potential pandemics. it's supposed to launch and send teams of experts into the countries to take a look at the situation directly, to assess the threat that the disease poses to the international community. and then work with other member states to arrest and control that threat if necessary. in this case, the world health organization wasn't even able to send an expert team into china until mid february because the chinese government wouldn't let them. instead of calling the chinese government to account for that lack of cooperation, lack of transparency, they instead, like i said, praised china for its transparency, they praised china for taki

is the bill and melinda gates foundation the largest private foundation on earth the next top private donor is the global alliance for vaccines which the gates foundation helped set up and which is reliant on gates foundation funding to this day turn on pretty much any news program these days and you'll find bill gates whose philanthropy has made himself an expert infectious diseases or gates is seen as a voice to listen to because in 2015 he gave a ted talk warning that the world was unprepared for the next outbreak but it's possible that the priorities of the gates foundation aren't the same as the objective progression of global health oh your show. and the other outcomes for me industry the single biggest. to the united states the single biggest contributor is. the bill and melinda gates foundation. which has a very close relationship to ours. and has goals that are almost lined with 3 so why is the united nations world health organization forced to rely on a private organization for such a significant portion of its funding according to global health watch the fundamental challen

the bill and melinda gates foundation. which has a very close relationship to pharmaceutical industry. and has goals that are almost lined with free so why is the united nations world health organization forced to rely on a private organization for such a significant portion of its funding according to global health watch the fundamental challenge at play here is a chronic funding crisis a lack of public funding has maybe w.h.o. turn to private sources and while in the early period after the organizations formation required contributions from u.n. member states where the majority of its budget by 20162017 that number had fallen to 20 percent even the former w.h.o. director general has noted in the past that her budget is driven by what she calls donor interests the w.h.o. needs money and it gets it where it can including from private organizations but it's only once donor control is broken that a global institution like the w.h.o. conserve its intended purpose for the news of rick sanchez michele greenstein our team. i've

defeat this pandemic this by it is now the next speaker will be the co-chair of bill and melinda gates foundation mrs milind gates you have the floor. ok i think we have a technical problem we will come back again to bill and melinda gates foundation and i will proceed to the next speakers and the next speaker will be his excellence in mr antonio guterres secretary general of the united nations your excellence you have the floor thank you very much this launch brings together world leaders the private sector scientific and humanitarian actors and other partners to promote else keep the world safe and advance the public good human else is the quintessential warble public goods and today we face a good public enemy like no other in an interconnected world none of us is safe and all of us are safe. maybe in respects no borders of 19 anywhere is a set of people everywhere. the world needs of development production and he quickly will deliver your safe and effective government 19 sex internet bill ticks and they. are not a vaccine articulates for one country or one digit or one of the worlds but the v

roughly 15 percent of its annual budget the next largest in the country but the bill and melinda gates foundation it covers nearly 10 percent of the w.h.o. has an e.o. program budget the united kingdom and germany are the next largest contributing nations in the u.k. is now pledged even more funding to the body as part of its effort to fight the pandemic close by in germany is the gavi vaccine alliance is largest in turn is also the bill and melinda gates foundation 20 of the world's largest economies have agreed to put the debts of the globe's poorest nations on hold the g. 20 nations have agreed to freeze debt payments for a year but averse to private lenders to do the same here as alan fischer reports now from virginia he says the international monetary fund has called for more concessions from struggling nations. and the thinking behind it is really quite simple they think that rather than have countries the 25 poorest countries at the moment who are indebted to to many other nations and to people like the i.m.f. they need their day essentially suspended so that they can not whining about how

joining me now is the co-founder of microsoft and coe chair of the bill and melinda gates foundation.i, thanks for joining us. >> nice to see your house. >> stephen: it's nice to see yours, too, unless you're broadcasting from the billionaire bunker on the moon you share with jeff bezos. >> yeah, at the club. >> stephen: whose night is it to cook, elon musk's? >> absolutely. >> stephen: well, sir, everybody's talking about the ted talk you gave in 2015 about the crisis that a coming pandemic would mean. why was this so obvious to you and others that this was something that we had to prepare for? >> well, once a disease is human-to-human trance admissible, then it -- transmissible, thent it can spread across the globe because there's so much more international travel, we're more at risk today than any time in history. a flu or a coronavirus like that literally could kill tens of millions. so we should have practiced. we should have said who's going contact tracing, and gotten the interventions -- diagnostics, drugs, vaccines -- so they're ready to go much faster. sadly, very little of

joining us, microsoft co-founder and the co-chair of the bill and melinda gates foundation. bill gates, mr. gates, welcome. thank you for joining us. zeke, let's get it kicked off. >> thank you, ali. bill, you and i have known each other for more than a decade now. one of the things in this covid-19 pandemic that a lot of people are worried about is that if we discover a vaccine the bottleneck may turn out to be production, distribution and administration of the vaccine. what are you personally prepared to do to accelerate the process of production and distribution? >> well, because we're in a rush to get the vaccine done, we need to back up to ten companies because we're not sure which one will work. it's a novel virus. we've never done a vaccine like this before. there are some things in common like the last stage manufactu manufacturing, if you want to make 7 billion or 14 billion doses, that will be a bottleneck so we're funding that will work for all the vaccines and together with the governments, we'll fund the different manufacturing plants. unfortunately, they're not

our conversation. >> joining us now, microsoft co-founder and the co-chair of the bill and melinda gates foundation, bill gates. mr. gates, welcome. thank you for joining us. zeke, let's get it kicked off. >> thank you, ali. bill, you and i have known each other for more than a decade now. one of the things in this covid-19 pandemic that a lot of people are worried about is that if we discover a vaccine, the bottleneck may turn out to be production, distribution, and administration of the vaccine. what are you personally prepared to do to accelerate the process of production and distribution. >> well, because we're in a rush to get the vaccine done, we need to back up to ten companies because we're not sure which one will work. it's a novel virus. we've never done a vaccine like this before. there are some things in common like the last stage of manufacturing is called fill finish. and if you want to make 14 billion doses, that's going to be a bottleneck. so we're funding fill finish that will work for all the vaccines. then together with the governments, we'll fund the different manufacturing plan

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representing some 15% of its budget after the us the second biggest single dina is the bill and melinda gates foundation that purpose to bill gates criticized trump's move that will be sent to you each day- and now more than that. adding that the- organized shin cann rip. this aren't helped by. for some people are saying trump's line on this is contradictory that's brilliant octamer a hundred more heat man here who says special stand by the metss and cast university for it i was a doctor thank you for being with us he said this by the president you at it i haven't fact on how h. o. can act. yoyou are broke e feb predt the pound the way history can you i'm with hindsight some the world health- organization made mistakes didn't get it right. right from the big so the origin space out there have been few certainly. especially one of the mistakes that really yeah. the tuition. eventual status that there is no human do transmission and basically does to be explored the medicare- and we think that people are traveling they don't have a any hesitation and then did you subscribe to a majority of the country's d

that's very often then filled by for example private philanthropy and like the bill and melinda gates foundation and that are then beyond any kind of parliamentary or democratic control of the this is this is not typical to that average or we're seeing this everywhere in multilateral organizations at the moment and i was proud of the berlin social science center thank you for speaking to if you don't. think next of all your questions the one about the growth of ours and then think that you've been sending us and the man to answer them as our science editor there rick williams. is math testing for coded $1000.00 a better approach and then only testing for severe cases it's grown increasingly clear as this pandemic progresses that the countries that took fast action have had the most success at keeping death rates down and a key measure they implemented early on was testing as quickly and as widespread as possible because we still have no treatments testing only severe cases at this point mostly only provides us with statistics like how many people cope with 1000 has killed from among the total nu

downs and flare ups could be the norm and there is no guarantee that any will work the bell melinda gates foundation will fund the manufacture of 7 potential vaccines despite the fact billions of dollars could be wasted maybe one or 2 will actually be successful but bill gates argues losing a 1000000000 is better than the global economy losing trillions of dollars. the united states has set aside $27000000000.00 including for the development of vaccines almost $500000000.00 on drug maker merck to deliver its kovan $1000.00 back saying which is already in trials tech start up the devil has unleashed its artificial intelligence power to fund existing drugs that may be used in the fight against this pandemic is identified a rheumatoid arthritis drug from lilly that may do the job it's just one of many drugs though that are in trials right now and it's not just the western world that has a scientific know how to beat the virus and senegal a laboratory is used it's aids in a bowl experience to develop a $1.00 kovan $1000.00 testing kit al-jazeera has more. senegal is doing what most countries count testi

the bill and melinda gates foundation using a lot of money and resources. again, a grain of salt.accines take years. i want to bring up the fact that the ebola vaccine when typical -- went into trials in 2014. it only got approval in december. that was a five-year undertaking. some said it was a remarkable pace. it is a between you to think about when we talk about the vaccine. manus: the distance between headlines and reality. thank you. let's get you up to speed. your first word news. worried about the long-term economic impact of the coronavirus. he thinks a goodly permanent scars on the economy. the battle to save the economy is far from over. willuropean central bank decide today if trillions of euros of stimulus is enough for the euro area. some are expecting to see an increase in asset purchase plan. most expect the governing council to cause -- cause -- pause. the u.k. death toll from coronavirus has topped 26,000. that's after the government included fatalities outside of hospitals for the first century of the foreign secretary is warning the government won't ease the got

is getting funding from bill and melinda gates foundation we know that china has said that it is going to ramp up its funding as well are we seeing let me put it this way is it too simplistic to suggest that this is in some way i sidelining of the u.s. with the w.h.o. and its supporters saying right fine we're going to go on our own. i think certainly there are some forces and it's quite complicated the diplomatic dynamics going on both at the world health organization in geneva and here at the u.n. headquarters in new york but in terms of multilateral diplomacy the u.s. is certainly not many countries friend because they don't think that they're playing their part but there are some who i think really would like to sideline the u.s. and make it quite clear that the u.s. is perhaps not even welcome at these sort of events i don't think that's true of the majority of the international community they know that the u.s. has tremendous diplomatic firepower and also as a country has vast resources it has great scientifical scientific and medical expertise and it has real financial firepower

bodies like the coalition for epidemic preparedness innovations, the who, and the bill and melinda gates foundationlevel that funds some of these initiatives. so that allows for an exchange of information and all that to flow. at the same time, of course, people are also competing. and like to think of this is going into a foot or game, no team goes into a game aiming to take one shot at goal and hope to win the game bya at goal and hope to win the game by a one — zero score. you going with different strategies and you react to the game as the game goes along. and because we know so little about this virus, it has only been with us for 5— six months, there is a lot we don't know about this virus. so by taking multiple attempts at developing a vaccine, coming from different technologies, different technologies, different approaches, that, think, increases our chances of getting a product that works at the end of the day. professor, thank you so much. thank you. the british government's chief medical officer, chris whitty, has warned that social distancing measures to limit the coronavirus could rema

years ago with support from the zuckerberg initiative, michael bloomberg and the bill and melinda gates foundation with two goals, one to partner with countries around the world to prevent 100 million deaths from heart attack and stroke and the other is to drive down the risk of epidemic and pandemic. now with covid-19, we've scaled up our operations in africa and. we have been working in this space for a few years. with covid-19, we have scaled up our operations in africa, and we are beginning to work in the united states. this is the moment to realize we are all connected. what happens to anyone can happen to anyone else, and it is in our self-interest to make sure we have the systems in place to implement prevention programs wherever that may work. by doing that, we can make ourselves safe and the world safer as well. host: this is the john hopkins map of coronavirus around the world. carol from st. louis, missouri, good evening. myler: thank you for taking call. i work in a dental office, and i am wondering what kind of ppe we should be using, and what we should do with the daily hazardous mat

circulating claims that the virus is a bio weapon from the united states and that the bill and melinda gates foundationreated the virus with pharmaceutical companies, to make money from the treatment. that is a, quite a combination. china, russia, and iran. joining us tonight, kt mcfarland, former deputy national security advise to president trump. author of the new book which we recommend to you highly, "revolution, trump, washington and we the people." kt, first of all, let's start with iran launching a military satellite. secretary pompeo says there must be an accounting. iran must be held responsible and the president issuing orders for the u.s. navy, the coast guard, to fire on any of those vessels that are harassing our ships in the area. what do you say? >> i think that was simply brilliant of president trump. he said three things really at once by that. number one, he has got to have the iranians scrambling because he is implying that we have intelligence about some i am impending attack. they have to be scrambling, who is leaking. putting shot across the bow for iran. he give them responsibili

like so many of us, melinda gates watched those close to her fight just to breathe as they battled coronavirus. the gates foundationnow putting billions of dollars behind eight different vaccines, hoping to find at least one that works. and melinda is sounding the alarm bell about what is to come for africa and the developing world. she spoke exclusively with cnn. here is our conversation. >> why do you think we were so ill prepared for coronavirus? >> we haven't recognized as a global community that we are a global community and if we had recognized that and stepped up to it, we would have prepared for this, we would have systems in place, both monitoring, alerting very quickly, we would have had test kits available, we would have just -- you know, we plan for things as nations. we plan for earthquakes. we plan for tsunamis. we plan for tornadoes. we didn't plan for disease. and i don't think that will ever happen. >> you and bill and the gates foundation are literally putting billions of dollars right now behind the ability to quickly manufacture eight different potential vaccines just in case one or two of them

it's got the backing of the world health organization, the bill and melinda gates foundation. it's interesting because b it is cheap and unlike insecticides that need to be continuously re- sprayed. these mosquitoes should theoretically be good to go once you release the them once and yu only need to release them once. it seems that it stops the spread of these viruses through many different routes computing with nutrients and the immune system in many ways and that is reassuring because they have a habit of running rings around us and no sensible biologist would back an approach assuming that it wouldn't get the better of us at some point t or another. but if the bacterium allows the insect to resist the viruses then it's from many types of resistance. all of this started in the microbial world and back in 1924, the people that discovered this could not possibly have predicted that this was where the science was going to be. he couldn't possibly have foreseen where this would lead to now and in many ways that is the study of the microglia and generals of the longest time we i

response of coronavirus as your own background shows in the twhous and then with the bill and melinda gates foundationthere have been those who have foreseen an eventuality like this for years. can i ask you maybe to address then how you think we need to change the system when we've dealt with this crisis to make sure there's a higher level of preparedness when the next crisis comes around? >> the first thing we need to understand is what's happening in the animal and human health population with viruses like this that we haven't really been paying attention to but are out there and have the potential to jump over from animals into the human population we call that surveillance. we have some surveillance activities going on around the world. we need to make those much better the other is around the response plan we know whenever you have something like this, a lot of people are going to get sick very, very quickly as we're seeing in different parts of the world, the illnesses can come in waves. you've seen in the graphs there are peaks in the demand on health care capacity that in many cases overstret

host: we mentioned the bill and melinda gates foundation.ill gates tweeting after the news yesterday, halting funding for the world health organization during the world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds. spread of slowing the covid-19. the world needs the who now more than ever. rose int caller, chicago. yesterday i called the c-span line after your show because of the numerous times you showed trump in the rose garden speaking about the who show thence did c-span numerous times trump claimed china was being straight up dishonest with him. , trump claimed that west virginia had no cases. why is that? where is the testing in this country? what is trump doing with the south korean tests that he bought and he's going to disburse? where is testing in this country? in the united states of america, where is the testing, brett? why is trump -- there was a reporter in the rose garden that he going towhat was do about china lying to him. do you recall that, brett? trump saying how president xi jinping -- host: we will get a response from our

bill and melinda gates foundation is the next largest donor to the w.h.o. a few days ago skied melinda gates what would it mean if the president were to make a move like this. here is what she said. >> the w.h.o. is a credible institution that has helped us through other pandemics and other epidemics. just take ebola, our most recent one, the w.h.o. was fundamental during that crisis. the w.h.o. absolutely needs to be funded, we worked with them for well over a decade today, well over a decade as a foundation. and they need to work with us on a coordinated response as a global community. so they're fundamental to this. >> fundamental to this. we should note, as this move happened, the u.s. trying to cut all the funding to w.h.o., the uk announced it will increase contribution to the w.h.o. by 65 million pounds. >> other countries expressing their confidence the organization as well. president trump's name, note this, will now be printed on the stimulus checks set to be mailed out in the coming weeks, white house official claims the decision will not result i

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taken a lead role in the search for a vaccine and a cure for the coronavirus, the bill and melinda gates foundations funding factories for each of the seven most promising ideas for a vaccine, even though gates freely admits that only one or two of them will actually be used. i'm now joined by bill gates. pleasure to have you on, bill. >> good to see you. >> so, if you were to explain to people in general, would you tell them that we now know the coronavirus is more deadly, less deadly, more transmissible, less transmissible? how do you characterize this one? >> well, we know that if we do these extreme social isolation measures we get the reproductive rate below 1, which means the total number of active infections starts to go down. what we don't know is we go slightly back to normal which activities create the risk of a rebound. and so we need to put into place a very dense testing regime so you would detect that rebound going back into the exponential growth very quickly and not wait for the icus to fill up and there to be lots of deaths. if you see the hot spot, you kind of understand the activ

the co-founder oosoft has spent the last few decades focuse through the bill and melinda gates foundation, on improving global health, includinreducing the spread of infectious diseases. we spoke earlier this evening. bill gates, thank you very much for joining us. you were one of th prescient few years ago who sad that an infectious disease outbre was coming that could kill millions of people. how is what is happening now different from what you expected? the economic damage is much that gr tter. i put illion for a respiratory virus spreadingo around the gbe and, you know, clearly we're going to go well beyond that. thu know, e whole goal of speaking out then wasn't to be able to say, "id tolu so" when it hammond. rather, it was to make sure we did the right thingo diagnostics would come out right away, the timeline for a vaccine would be very short. and, sadly, not many of those ings were doe. so now we're scrambling to come up with thrapeutics, scrambling to try to figure out how to get de.s vaccine but people are arising to the occasion, but it's a very bad situation. >> woodruff: wel

we launched 2 1/2 thes ago with support from zuckerberg initiative, michael the bill and melinda gates foundation with two goals, one to partner with countries around the world to deaths frommillion heart attack and stroke and the other is to drive down the risk epidemic and pandemic. now with covid-19 we've scaled up our operations in africa and beginning work in the united states and what we're seeing is that it is the moment for all of us to recognize that we're all connected, that what happens to affect anyone else and it's in our self-interest to make sure that we have the systems in place, find problems stopthey first emerge, them wherever possible, and to implement prevention programs wherever that may work and by we can make ourselves safer and the world's safer, as well. hopkinshis is the johns map of coronavirus around the globe as we listen to carol from st. louis, missouri. good evening. caller: thank you for taking my call. i work in a dental office and i'm wondering what types of p.p.e.'s we should be utilizing. also, what should we do with hazardousmaterial, materials? dr. frieden:

we will talk about his efforts through the bill and melinda gates foundation to fight this pandemic world wide. 10:00 even. 7:00 on the west coast on this very network, where now ari melber picks up our continuing confirmage from here. ari. >> thank you, very much, brian. appreciate it. . we have been, of course, keeping an eye on the white house coronavirus coronavirus task force briefing and the interviews, including those interesting little clues about 2020 and the running mate consideration with kamela harris. so we have a lot to get to i want to bring in a pulitzer prize winning columnist for "the washington post". the director of the national and global health at georgetown university law school is a veteran of the w.h.o. with an expert council on infectious disease, which makes it relevant. dr. es ther cho oregon science university. good to see all of you. professor goesling irks i want to start with you, viewers may recall the big news, not so long ago when the president lashed out to the w.h.o. and you joined us for special coverage then. as mentioned you've advised the w.h.o. on

possible is that the most important foundation for health in this country is the bill and melinda gates foundation million grant. how did that come about? >> well, they've been a supporter of our vaccine technology and various programs over the years and so this was really great to get this $5 million to advance our program. we also got support from se ppi which is a global health organization as well as the u.s. department of defense to expand our manufacturing capabilities for our vaccine. and we expect this global network of funders to even grow in the coming weeks and months >> now, it is very expensive to do big trials. are you financed well enough to be able to take the next step if things go well in phase one? >> yes we have internal funding, but we also expect a lot of external funding to support scaling up and conducting our later trials. and these could be various government agencies, gates foundation, se ppi, just to nam a few. >> when i said you were the number one stock that's traded, robinhood, people said that's ridiculous i said, have you looked at dr. kim's background decades of b

several groups are funded by fundedogram, which is initially by the bill and melinda gates foundation. of information, sharing a lot of discussion at higher levels, and a lot of groups have been brought in as well. in addition, the reports from these different groups as we submit publication like we have done, on the kind of immune response we are seeing, the quality of the vaccines, they are deposited in an open database so people can look at them almost in real time, which is completely different than before this outbreak. host: important to point out, the institute dates back to the 1950's with polio, correct? guest: yes, you are exactly right. 1950's, a scientist at the university of pennsylvania started testing type one polio, one of the first rains of polio vaccine to be tested as a live vaccine. that strain is now in our .odern-day vaccines host: let's get to our viewer and listener calls. deborah is from illinois. good evening. caller: good evening and thank you for taking my call. i have to say, i was a polio baby back in the 1950's. here is my question. i watch c-span and ev