Amanpour: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Paolo Gentiloni, Dr. Boris Lushniak and Sarah Lewis

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Christiane Amanpour is joined by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the former President of Liberia, to talk about how the coronavirus is affecting Africa, and her own experience leading, and winning, the battle against Ebola in 2014. Former Italian Prime Minister and current EU Economy Commissioner, Paolo Gentiloni, reflects on the struggle for unity amongst the European bloc, and the uncertainty around Europe's tourist season. Dr. Boris Lushniak, former U.S. Acting Surgeon General, discusses the controversies around America's search for a vaccine, including Dr. Rick Bright's stark warning to Congress on Thursday. And our Walter Isaacson speaks to Sarah Lewis, an associate Professor at Harvard University, about why it's important to have a visual record of the human cost of the coronavirus.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 Amampur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	Our window of opportunity is closing. If we fail to improve our response now based on science, I fear
0:16.7	the pandemic will get worse and be prolonged.
0:19.4	How did U.S. vaccine chiefower, Rick Bright tells Congress the Trump administration
0:25.3	peddled untested drugs and warns that without a coordinated effort the nation will face a dark
0:31.4	coronavirus winter.
0:33.0	Former U.S. Acting Surgeon General joins me.
0:36.0	Plus, what happens when coronavirus moves from the most powerful
0:40.0	to the poorest parts of our world?
0:42.0	It has reached every corner of Africa now and
0:45.2	I ask former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf how she mobilised a global fight
0:51.0	against Ebola in her region.
0:53.0	Then, Europe will see tourists this summer,
0:56.5	that promise from Economy Commissioner Paolo Genteloni,
1:00.0	but I'll ask him at what cost. And Harvard Professor Sarah Lewis
1:05.0	tells our Walter Isakson about the power of images
1:08.0	and how seeing is believing. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur working from home in
1:28.9	London. It's been just over two months since the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic and the virus
1:36.2	continues its deadly spread.
1:39.2	Congressional hearings in Washington reveal a roadmap to dysfunction.
1:43.0	A top vaccine advisor in the Trump administration says that he was demoted
1:48.0	when he repeatedly warned about shortages in the supply chains and the need for a national coordination.
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