Donald trump the float right now and indepth analysis of the days headlines the protest movement is only getting stronger the more people he killed the more resilient the resistant they will become inside story on aljazeera. On up front today its the biggest story in the world as a coronavirus pandemic keeps spreading how is it that south korea seems to have controlled it and why is the United States so far behind ill ask a top scientist in seoul and the Top Republican in the us. South korea has more than 8000 cases of the coronavirus but so far remarkably theyve managed to avoid the staggering death tolls weve seen elsewhere in the world from covert 19 the disease caused by the virus how do they do it and should other countries follow their lead joining me now to discuss this is dr jerome kim a leading american physician and Research Scientist based in the south korean capital of seoul where hes director general of the International Vaccine institute drove kim thank you for joining me
On up front today its the biggest story in the world as a coronavirus pandemic keeps spreading how is it that south korea seems to have controlled it and why is the United States so far behind ill ask a top scientist in seoul and the Top Republican in the us. South korea has more than 8000 cases of the coronavirus but so far remarkably theyve managed to avoid the staggering death tolls weve seen elsewhere in the world from covert 19 the disease caused by the virus how do they do it and should other countries follow their lead joining me now to discuss this is dr jerome kim a leading american physician and Research Scientist based in the south korean capital of seoul where hes directed general of the International Vaccine institute jerome kim thank you for joining me from. The coronavirus throws the entire world into unprecedented chaos south korea has been hailed as a Success Story as a model even for the rest of the world is that a fair description and. So i think that every country w
Commissioner. Here . Are we even i will give one example. Pandemicthere was a flu. They called it swine flu. The outbreak infected more than 2 Million People. As far as i can tell, the who acted incredibly admirably and rapidly in getting vaccines out. The only reason that it was not devastatingost epidemics in the history of humanity is because that particular flu decided not to be very lent. We dont get a vote. But the Gates Foundation has mathematical modelers that estimated that, had it been flu, 33 like the 1918 million, 37 Million People would have died, and we would not be having this conversation because we would be dead. What happens when these sort of things occur is if they dont kill a lot of people, we just move on, especially when it comes to influenza, which people seem to think is just a word that means i dont feel well. For the first question, i would maybe youk tony, can explain why we would want universal vaccines, how does this work, and how is the pandemic different
Speakers include doctor anthony tolkien, director of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases and hamburg , former fda commissioner. This is about an hour. Why are we even hear. I will give one example. In 2009 there was a pandemic flu. Make a swine flu, i dont know why. Its beside the point. Doing you want enough to go back and out of blake instructed more than 2 billion people. As far as i can tell and theres a lot of reporting on this, the who acted incredibly admirably and rapidly in getting vaccine out. And the only reason that it wasnt one of the most devastating epidemics in the history of humanity is because that person particular flu decided not to be berlin. We dont get a vote but the Gates Foundation else modelers who are pretty good and they estimated that had been anything like the 1918 flu, 33, 37 Million People would have died and then we wouldnt be having this conversation or at least some of us wouldnt becausewe began. And what happens when these sort
Reason that it was not one of the most devastating epidemics in the history of humanity is because that particular flu decided not to be very lent. We dont get a vote. But the Gates Foundation has mathematical modelers that estimated that, had it been anything like the 1918 flu, 33 million, 37 Million People would have died, and we would not be having this conversation because we would be dead. What happens when these sort of things occur is if they dont kill a lot of people, we just move on, especially when it comes to influenza, which people seem to think is just a word that means i dont feel well. For the first question, i would like to ask tony, maybe you can explain why we would want universal vaccines, how does this work, and how is the pandemic different from what we get every year, and where are we . Ok. Thanks, michael. Very briefly, because i know we have a lot to talk about, but the situation with influenza, as many know, is that unlike a virus like measles, which, if you ha