A Global Virus Report Card

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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New Zealand is one of the countries that has been most successful in crushing the spread of the coronavirus. Now, the World Health Organization has asked former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark to co-chair an independent panel evaluating the critical steps taken early in the pandemic. She spoke to senior editor Jason Gale about how different countries approached the virus spread, and which approaches worked.

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0:40.9	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 24 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:51.8	Today's main story, New Zealand's former Prime Minister is heading up a report that will give the world a report card on the pandemic response.
0:57.8	One finding, while some countries focused on flattening the curve,
1:06.1	others decided the right approach was to stamp out the virus completely. But first, here's what happened in virus news today.
1:18.6	President Donald Trump has stayed silent as the U.S. coronavirus outbreak rages.
1:24.6	The leadership vacuum has left governors and health authorities on their own to grapple with record new cases and hospitalizations.
1:30.2	Trump hasn't spoken publicly in a week, even though the virus is setting records across the country.
1:37.2	He'll receive a briefing on Friday about vaccine development, but has otherwise focused his
1:43.1	public comments on circulating debunked allegations of voter fraud and criticizing Fox News on Twitter.
1:52.1	Experts say that the president could help by appealing directly to Americans to wear masks, encouraging Republican governors to do more to slow the spread, and publicly
2:03.8	backing health officials. He could direct his staff to jointly coordinate with President-elect
2:10.5	Joe Biden's transition team. Instead, he has discouraged masks in social distancing and is blocking the start of Biden's
2:19.6	transition while refusing to concede defeat.
2:23.9	Meanwhile, in England, new figures show that the rate of increase of COVID-19 infections
2:29.7	was already slowing the week the nation entered a four-week lockdown.
2:35.9	The total rate of infections was down slightly to 1 in 85 in the week through November 6th,
2:43.3	according to the Office for National Statistics.
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