Amanpour: Dr. Atul Gawande, Nick Clegg, Jon Meacham and David Beasley

Amanpour

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🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dr. Atul Gawande, surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and staff writer at the New Yorker, joins Christiane Amanpour to outline the importance of protective equipment for our frontline health care workers and how we at home can employ simple strategies to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Nick Clegg, VP for global affairs and communications at Facebook and former British Deputy PM, answers questions about what Facebook are doing to stop the spread of misinformation about Covid-19 and how the social media giant have learnt from their past mistakes. Our Walter Isaacson talks to Jon Meacham, the presidential historian and biographer, about what we can learn about previous presidents and their handling of various crisis situations. He assesses how leaders around the world are handling this pandemic. David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme and former Governor, talks candidly about recovering from corona virus and how he nearly confused his symptoms with allergies. He talks about how the WFP's work can continue during this outbreak.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	As the battle to contain coronavirus struggles with a shortage of protective gear,
0:15.0	simple effective steps still count.
0:18.0	The acclaimed American surgeon and author Atul Gowonday, pioneered hand washing at hospitals joins me.
0:25.0	Then I ask Facebook Communication Chief and former Deputy British Prime Minister Nick Clegg
0:31.0	about misinformation spreading faster than the virus.
0:35.0	And... Presidents of the United States who get in trouble are the ones who don't level with us.
0:40.0	Leadership in times of crisis, presidential historian John Meacham puts it into perspective with our Walter
0:46.0	Isakson.
0:47.0	Plus, I speak to the Head of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, about his recovery from COVID-19. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancore working from home in London. This was the week that saw
1:14.4	coronavirus infections top the 1 million mark worldwide and it was the week that saw
1:19.8	the economic devastation caused by trying to cure this virus.
1:24.7	In the United States over 6,000 people have lost their lives and the shortage of supplies is taking
1:30.4	a heavy toll while President Trump is warning of very painful weeks ahead.
1:35.5	Dr. Anthony Fauchy on the White House Task Force is now calling for all states to issue
1:40.9	stay-at at home orders.
1:42.8	Here in the UK, the stark reality of this crisis takes hold as Prince Charles virtually
1:48.4	opens a new 4,000 bed emergency hospital in a converted London conference center.
1:54.7	The air to the throne is recovering after he himself was infected with COVID-19.
2:00.3	From the death toll to the unemployment numbers to medical shortages,
2:04.0	important debates are now taking place as governments try to figure out strategies.
2:09.0	But our first guest has some simple advice, and that is keep washing your hands.
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