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By JOEL ACHENBACH, ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA AND FRANCES STEAD SELLERS | The Washington Post | Published: March 9, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. New Year s Eve 2019: Ian Lipkin, a famed Columbia University epidemiologist, is having dinner with his wife and a fellow scientist. He gets a confidential phone call from a highly placed source in China: There s a cluster of pneumonia-like illnesses in the city of Wuhan caused by a novel coronavirus. The source says it s not that big a deal: It doesn t look very transmissible.
That virus would slowly reveal its secrets — and proceed to shut down much of the planet, killing more than 2.5 million people in the most disruptive global health disaster since the influenza pandemic of 1918.
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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Tuesday, March 9 from 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. EST (Wednesday, March 10 from 7:00 – 7:30 a.m. AEDT) the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security and the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security will co-host a discussion with
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the President and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Professor Paul Kelly, Chief Medical Officer at the Australian Government Department of Health. Moderated by
Katherine E. Bliss, Senior Fellow with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, the discussion will examine how the Australian and United States governments are recalibrating their public health strategies in response to SARS-CoV-2 variants, which have fundamentally changed the trajectory of the pandemic.
Over and over, President Biden has emphasized the need to inoculate as many Americans as quickly as possible, all but staking his presidency on successfully shielding the country from COVID-19. Yet the uneven vaccination effort globally is expected to leave large swaths of the planet unprotected for years, potentially frustrating his effort.
Uncontrolled spread anywhere in the world can allow the virus to mutate to evade vaccines already developed and then threaten the United States again.
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Vaccine Watch, the latest on vaccine distribution countywide, is among eight Lookout initiatives documenting all aspects of the pandemic. For more, go to our