You get this kind of a surge and clearly that is on the increase. So in terms of Foreign Policy issues and, and i think this gets into some of what erica has been dealing with, we have more and more of these effects of climate, what we think are Climate Change. Were seeing, seeing droughts become more serious. Were seeing storms become more serious storms and how do you see this affecting us in terms of this Foreign Policy . I mean, one thing we have to deal with is often the United States is turned to help, people turn to us for human hahm aid and seeps that, that were running through that much more quickly than we used to in the past. Right. It is really interesting. We were all invited as part of the global thinkers event to a event at washington, d. C. As well and was focused much more on Foreign Policy and not specifically Climate Change but as a scientist who spend most of her day inside of a Science Building it was interesting to interact and hear from folks like current ambassa
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Weekend, weve seen around 2,000 or more new deaths reported every single day. Thats more deaths per day than we average from heart disease, or cancer, or anything else. While there are pockets of good news, including that new york appears to be past the plateau of its case, we are seeing new outbreaks across the country. Particularly in places that have not put adequate mechanisms in place to protect people. The only way we can even start to ease restrictions in a way that wont be a disaster, from a Public Health or Economic Health perspective is, to vastly scale testing. This is not secret knowledge or esoteric expert idea. Pretty much everyone across the ideological spectrum says the same thing. In fact, extensive testing is a central component of the white houses own plan for quote opening up america again. Vice president mike pence, along with the president , had been claiming however, the testing structure necessary to start easing restrictions is already in place. There is a suff
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