Amanpour: George Osborne, Jeremy Farrar, Billie Jean King and Jon Cohen

Amanpour

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🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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George Osborne, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the shocking news that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who tested positive for coronavirus, has been admitted to the ICU due to his worsening condition. They dig into how the country are dealing with the crisis and this new development. Jeremy Farrar, director of The Wellcome Trust, talks about the race the find an effective treatment for the virus. Billie Jean King, the iconic Tennis Champion and founder of the Women's Tennis Association, expresses her approval that the Billie Jean King Tennis Center will be transformed into a temporary hospital in the fight against Covid-19. She talks about the advantages and disadvantages of so many sporting events being cancelled. Then our Hari Sreenivasan talks to Jon Cohen, senior correspondent at Science Magazine, about the extraordinary work being done to find a vaccine. However, he also stresses the importance of listening to the clear-cut facts coming out of the scientific community, that too many are ignoring.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.
0:09.0	Boris Johnson the British Prime Minister remains remains in intensive care, even as his government
0:14.9	fights the coronavirus.
0:17.1	What does this all mean for Britain and for Johnson himself?
0:20.8	I speak to the former British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourn and to Jeremy
0:26.0	Ferrer the leading pandemics expert advising the British government.
0:31.0	Then tennis legend Billy Jean King joins the fight against this
0:34.9	pandemic. The site of the US Open named in her honor is transformed into an
0:40.4	emergency hospital and veteran science journalist John Cohen tracks down the truth
0:46.9	behind the coronavirus spin. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur working from home in
1:08.2	London. We're here in the UK the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
1:12.4	remains in intensive care.
1:14.7	Downing Street insists that he's in good spirits, stable and receiving quote standard
1:20.0	oxygen treatment, not invasive ventilation.
1:23.8	But it is serious and frankly unsettling
1:26.9	as the country struggles to fight the disease
1:29.5	that has struck the Prime Minister himself.
1:32.3	Unlike the United States, Britain has no formal succession.
1:36.0	First Secretary Dominic Raub, who's the Foreign Minister, is deputized to fill in as necessary.
1:43.0	But what exactly does this mean?
1:45.0	And what happens if Johnson is further unable to do his job?
1:49.1	The number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the UK is very much on the rise with more than 52
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