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A novel pathogen when you want to contain it, not mitigate the spread, slow down the spread but stop it in its tracks. so what they're doing is actually preventing the they're doing the right thing there. >> that's good to hear. our understand ing, based on th ioc chair is based on 80 to 85% of athletes will be vaccinated. you wish it would be 100%. that's not unlike what we see, for instance, in major league baseball in the u.s. they're holding a dozen games a day, right, in major league baseball and largely have managed to do what you're talking about there. does that vaccination rate among ...

Incredibly useful in some areas. it meant we had a draft bill which became the coronavirus act. it meant that we had plans ready for infection prevention and control and infection prevention and control and in fact we published our first infection prevention and control data and guidance, sorry, guidance not data, on the 10th of january. so those plans were important. but of course when you have a novel pathogen, it behaves differently to what any plans could possibly set out. and what really mattered is the capabilities that we had. there were some areas where we have strong capabilities, som...

Conclusion that there was significant asymptomatic transmission. there was a global scientific consensus based on decades of expert work on coronavirus, that coronaviruses do not transmit from people who don't have symptoms. and this is wrong. but it's wrong because this is a novel pathogen, a novel virus, it's unprecedented and i heard evidence from china that there was asymptomatic transmission in january. and i also remember talking to my german opposite number and they had seen some evidence in germany. and i asked the scientists to look into this and in fact i was so worried about it, i a...

Of april! on the 3rd of april at the cdc came forward with evidence paper and very shortly afterwards, public health england came forward with a further one and the consensus, the scientific position changed and then we brought in the extra, stronger, we brought in the extra, stronger, we changed a number of policies across government as a result but thatis across government as a result but that is a story of how preparedness and relying on the science which is normally the right thing to do, and let's be clear, we are kicking onto macro areas where it would have been better at the prevailing ...

Out pathogenic influenza virus, we saw it with anthrax 4 into the united states. it's absolutely possible. however, not usually would a novel pathogen, and unfortunately at this point, you're claiming that the chinese government is deliberately hiding this and without proof, you're really at a stalemate. and i understand the distrust, right? so, the chinese government, not the chinese people, the chinese government has never been forthcoming and sharing samples and primary data. not in this specific lab that people are concerned about, they have not shared the emails and the log reports, so i ...